The story - from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace - is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

Imelda Marcos

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

Agnes Repplier

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Thomas Bulfinch

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde

Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky.

Miguel de Unamuno

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

Athanasius

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

Danny Strong

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.

J. Robert Oppenheimer