The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

George Santayana

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Thurgood Marshall

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Italian Proverb

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives.

Leo Tolstoy

I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

John Eaton

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Robert Frost

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

R. L. Stine

Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.

John Green

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer