If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Emile Zola

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. Psalms 30:5

Bible

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

David Eddings

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

David Mamet

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

C.S. Lewis

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Albert Schweitzer

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

Joseph Lancaster

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Gerry Adams

The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds.

Roger Stark

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey