To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

Cathy Guisewite

Novels are longer than life.

Natalie Clifford Barney

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

William O. Douglas

Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.

Rodney Dangerfield

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Nicolaus Copernicus

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Sylvester Stallone

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Anne Perry

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence