With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Charles Baudelaire

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Victor J. Banis

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

Aristotle

If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?

Lauren B. Davis

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

Dorothy Parker, Horsie

I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

David Levithan

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

George W. Bush

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.

Proverb

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Paul Ryan

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but, if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy, and to read what he pleases.

Thomas Jefferson