The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Saul Bellow

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Chinese Proverb

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Jacob Bronowski, The Sense of Hu

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Anthony Hecht

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

C.S. Lewis

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Len Wein

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

Joseph Campbell

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

Joyce Maynard

Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you're trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries.

AainaA-Ridtz A R

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

George Bernard Shaw

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Aristotle