That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

Maude Adams

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Jean Baudrillard

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Orson Scott Card

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Stephen King

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Double-thought: as you believe things that should be self-contradictory. This is generally the result of some kind of propaganda.

James Dye

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

Florence King

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Oscar Wilde

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

Lee Child

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Denis Diderot

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Henry Hazlitt