Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

George Arliss

And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letter

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Andrew Weil

To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Victor Hugo

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Iain Sinclair

He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Leo Tolstoy

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

Charles Dickens

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Benjamin Disraeli

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Charles Baudelaire

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Orson Scott Card