The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Yukio Mishima

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Leonard Bernstein

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Rutherford B. Hayes

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Samuel Johnson

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives...The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

Herman Wouk, Aurora Dawn 1947

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Richard Dawkins

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

War is the business of barbarians.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

Stockard Channing

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

Anne Bronte

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Frank A. Clark