My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Henry David Thoreau

Gifts make their way through stone walls.

Proverb

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

Tori Amos

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Arthur Henderson

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Henry David Thoreau

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

Neil Gaiman

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Edward Dahlberg

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Laurell K Hamilton

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Christopher Plummer

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Jean Baudrillard

You only get one life so dream big. Dream bold. Dream in color

Claire Cross

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

Ella Maillart