People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Aldous Huxley

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Renata Adler

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Henry A. Kissinger

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Charles Dickens

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

Plato

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Emma Goldman

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Horace

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd (Welsh: The truth against the world).

David Lloyd George

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Christopher Hitchens

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel