He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis cam three months after I got my first period. Like, Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

John Green

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

David Brin

Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

Ernest Hemingway

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Margaret Thatcher

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Danny Boyle

Was man über Angst erreichte, das wurde stets auch mit Angst bezahlt. Die Mächtigen fielen irgendwann genauso der Hybris der Macht zum Opfer, wie die Ohnmächtigen dem Zorn über ihre Machtlosigkeit.

David Gray

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

Thomas Fuller

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Kin Hubbard