Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.

Eric Hoffer

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Johnny Rotten

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

Catherynne M. Valente

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane

Cassandra Clare

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Jay Chiat

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

George Eliot

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

Virginia Woolf

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

J.M. Coetzee

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas Alva Edison