A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Billy Corgan

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hermann Hesse

Thinking that it was time to bring down the Monarch from his raptures to the level of common sense, I determined to endeavour to open up to him some glimpses of the truth, that is to say of the nature of things in Flatland.

Edwin Abbott Abbott

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Pierre Beaumarchais

It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

Source Unknown

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

Joseph Ratzinger

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.

Steve Maraboli

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

Charlotte Bronte

He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

J.R.R. Tolkien

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

J.R.R. Tolkien

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock