Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never say never

Charles Dickens

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Neville Chamberlain

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Jeanette Winterson

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Victor Hugo

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

William J. Clinton

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Maya Lin

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

Shaun White

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Quentin Crisp

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. . They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

George Orwell

A man gift will make a way for him.

Bible

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

Elton John