People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

He had dropped upon a seat halfway down the nave and, again in the museum mood, was trying with head thrown back and eyes aloft, to reconstitute a past, to reduce it in fact to the convenient terms of Victor Hugo, whom, a few days before, giving the rein for once in a way to the joy of life, he had purchased in seventy bound volumes, a miracle of cheapness, parted with, he was assured by the shopman, at the price of the red-and-gold alone. He looked, doubtless, while he played his eternal nippers over Gothic glooms, sufficiently rapt in reverence; but what his thought had finally bumped against was the question of where, among packed accumulations, so multiform a wedge would be able to enter..

Henry James, The Ambassadors, 19

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

Stephen King

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Robert Anton Wilson

Superhuman effort isn't worth a d--n unless it achieves results.

Ernest Shackleton

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

George Herbert

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

John Berger

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

Source Unknown

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Henry Brooks Adams

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Elizabeth Hurley

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

Chief Seattle