A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Henry Miller

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

B. R. Ambedkar

When we focus our thoughts on something, we resonate with it. When that resonance is constant and directed, we draw it to us.

Stephen Richards

It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you.

Cupcake Brown

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

David Attenborough

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Henry James

Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.

Orson Scott Card

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Maria Mitchell

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude

Oscar Wilde