Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.

American Indian Proverb, Lakota

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

Michael Bloomberg

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

Bertrand Russell

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Ernest Hemingway

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Edward W. Howe

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.

Albert Einstein

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Angela Thirkell

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

Albert Einstein

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Herbert Spencer

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Arabic Proverb

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

Orson Scott Card