I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Yogi Berra

First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

Lilith Saintcrow

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

Mark Twain

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Stephen King

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

A.L. Williams

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Don Roff

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arthur Ashe

Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Abu Bakr

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible

Mahatma Gandhi

[Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell.

Martin Luther King Jr.