To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

LaNina King

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Albert Einstein

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Tracey Ullman

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Zack W. Van

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Henry David Thoreau

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Harold Ruopp

My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.

Cheech Marin

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Anna Freud

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

Proverb

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines --these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Henry Miller