They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

Joe Sakic

It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the society in which he lives. It is easy enough, and always profitable, to rail away at national enemies beyond the sea, at foreign powers beyond our borders who question the prevailing order.But the moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home; to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own culture. If the writer is unwilling to fill this part, then the writer should abandon pretense and find another line of work: become a shoe repairman, a brain surgeon, a janitor, a cowboy, a nuclear physicist, a bus driver.

Edward Abbey, Writer's Credo

Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.

John Ruskin

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

William Feather

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

A. R. Orage, Essays and Aphorism

Minds differ still more than faces

Voltaire

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Veda Upanishads

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Michel de Montaigne

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Hal Borland

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Nikita Khrushchev

We ourselves are made of Stardust.

Carl Sagam