We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton

I want to lay my kill at your feet.

Annette Curtis Klause

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Barry Munro

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.

Stephen Richards

Once respect has been initiated, war is less provocative.

Andrea Scholer

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

Michael Moriarty

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Vaclav Havel

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Oscar Wilde

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one

Samuel Johnson

My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used.

Kristin Cashore