Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

The dead should not rule the living

Thomas Jefferson

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

William Wallace

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montagu

Music became a healer for me.

Eric Clapton

He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me

John Dryden

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

Ernie Banks

If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.

Johann von Goethe

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Elbert Hubbard

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Brigitte Bardot

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

Alton Brown

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898

Mark Twain

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

William Butler Yeats