When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

It's not necessary to tell all you know... You're not gonna change any one of them by talkin' right. They've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

Harper Lee

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

William Law

Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives -- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -- with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists stage.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Christine Keeler

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

Earl Rochester

Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...

Anon.

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

Source Unknown

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

Kahlil Gibran

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

C.S. Lewis

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Diligence is the mother of luck.

Ben Franklin