Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Thomas Carlyle

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Parker J. Palmer

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hermann Hesse

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

C. S. Lewis

I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (sometimes longed for). Why not kidnap Suzy and sneak off to the life of a semi-hermit? A tempting, constantly tempting idea. ......Peace. Simplicity. Order, ceremony and ritual. Voluntary poverty. An end to clutter and this vulgar, stifling, crushing burden of things

Edward Abbey, Confessions of a B

Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

Mahatma Gandhi

He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.

Lisa Kleypas

The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

Iimani David

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

John Patrick

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

LaoTzu