A type conveys absence and presence, pleasure and pain. A cipher has a double meaning, one clear, and one in which it is said that the meaning is hidden.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Susan Sontag

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Georgia O'Keeffe

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Howard Nemerov

A man is related to all nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Napoleon Hill

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Kin Hubbard

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

Albert Brooks