If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Ogden Nash

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

John Boorman

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Stephen King

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

H. L. Mencken

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

No Peace without Hope, No Hope without Liberty, No Liberty without Integrity, No Integrity without Virtue, No Virtue without Enlightenment, No Enlightenment without Truth.

Glenn Beck

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Bryant H. McGill

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

E.M. Forster

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Richard Armour

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

Orson Scott Card

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain