When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,And in a dream as in a fairy barkDrift on and on through the enchanted darkTo purple daybreak--little thought we payTo that sweet bitter world we know by day.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Mark Edwards

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Oscar Levant

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Benjamin Franklin

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

Steve Albini

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Walter Bagehot

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Sir Winston Churchill

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

Stephen King

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'

Robert Francis Kennedy

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden