It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Helen Hunt Jackson

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

Donna Rice

Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.

Stephen Richards

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce

Our best history is still poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

Jennifer Granholm

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Virginia Woolf

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

There are no creeds in mathematics.

Peter Drucker

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

Cesar Nascimento