Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

J.K. Rowling

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

It's okay to wander.

Tony Dungy

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Otto von Bismarck

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Neil LaBute

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Lord Chesterfield

I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart was made to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

Phyllis Schlafly

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having to come to grips with it. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it. So I use writing as a learning tool.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

A. Neilen