Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

Marquis de Sade

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Anish Kapoor

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Henry David Thoreau

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Christopher Columbus

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Arlen Specter

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

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Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Stephen King

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

C.S. Lewis