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.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Eileen Caddy

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

Darrell Hammond

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

E. Stanley Jones

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Norman Mailer

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Nick Hornby

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Stephen King

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

William Cowper

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

Oscar Wilde

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Juvenal

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Tom Stoppard

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami