What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

George Orwell

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

Sir Winston Churchill

That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home.

Edward Abbey

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Doug Coupland

The only power you have is the word no.

Frances McDormand

When I go, I'm flying Air Bizarre. It's a good airline. Youbuy a one way round trip ticket. You leave any Monday, and theybring you back the previous Friday... That way you still havethe weekend.

Steven Wright

America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

Claudia Pemberton

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

Marwa Ayad

I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.

Willow Shields

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark....

Howard Ruff

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Henry Longhurst