The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'

Jerry Seinfeld

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

Taylor Caldwell, Testimony of Tw

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Arnold Bennett

No matter how you're feeling, a little dog gunna love you.

Waka Flocka Flame

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Lec

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets

Samuel Johnson

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

Louis Claude de St. Martin

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.

Neil Gaiman

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Clive Barker

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Margaret Weis, Soulforge