Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Jack Layton

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

Robert Frost

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

Plato

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

Bill Vaughan

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

T. S. Eliot

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Koushun Takami

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Sue Monk Kidd

Love is more than just a pretty face with a nice personality.

Rebecca A. Rogers

Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.

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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Henry Ward Beecher

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Saint Augustine of Hippo