All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.

H.C. Paye

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Alice Walker, The Temple of My F

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Remy de Gourmont

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Max de Pree

Little words hurt big ideas.

Howard W. Newton

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Robert Louis Stevenson

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

Herschel Walker

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

Terry Pratchett

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Benjamin Franklin

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Haruki Murakami