When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw Lec

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

Steve Jobs

Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.

Vernon Howard

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Nick Cave

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

Wade Boggs

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

George Miller

My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.

Ian Harding

This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets.

Luke Treadaway

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

W. H. Auden

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell