As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that the things that are truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

Oscar Wilde

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Chuck Klosterman

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

William Shakespeare

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Carroll O'Connor

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

James Allen

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Milton Berle

I can't, I have too many pencils to sharpen.

David Rees

One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war.

Ernest Hemingway

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.

Stephen Richards