How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

Under loves heavy burden do I sink.--Romeo

William Shakespeare

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

Clifford D. Simak

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).

Barbara Ehrenreich

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Abraham Lincoln

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

Norman Mailer

I know you love me. The question is, how much?

Jodi Picoult

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

Orhan Pamuk

I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!

Bill Watterson

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Alton Brown