Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

Christina Ricci

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

Nadine Gordimer

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Walter Winchell

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Vaclav Havel

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Robert Morgan

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Mason Cooley

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Albert Einstein

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Norman Vincent Peale

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Francis H. Bradley

Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.

Melissa de la Cruz