It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

David Arquette

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

Boris Pasternak

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Italo Calvino

Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.

Deepa Bhushan

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed, no

We of the twentieth century should not allow ourselves to think vaguely of the Middle Ages as a benighted or shadowy period when life and the people who constituted it had scarcely anything in common with ourselves. In reality the men of the Middle Ages were moved by the same emotions and impulses as our own, and their lives presented the same incongruous mixture of nobility and baseness.

Robert Huntington Fletcher, A Hi

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do.

Dougray Scott

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command

Ralph Waldo Emerson