It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Herbert Croly

Advice is judged by results, not by intention.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Paul Cezanne

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Marshall McLuhan

Tame your technology

Lee J. Colan, 107 Ways to Stick

the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

Franz Kafka

Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

Stephen King

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Sir Walter Raleigh

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Stephen Jay Gould

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

Michael Eisner

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

John Green