leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Terry Pratchett

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Oscar Wilde

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Richard Bach

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Karl Marx

A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.

Proverb

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

Salma Hayek

He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand.

Terry Pratchett

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

George W. Bush

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Mary Caroline Richards