The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

Jason Schwartzman

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

John Stuart Mill

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Mark Twain

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.

Jodi Picoult

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Sarah Zettel

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Robert Montgomery

Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse

Connor George Serbin

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

Henry Miller

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

Henri Poincare

-Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something.The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?- No, Matthew. What do they say?- The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.

Neil Gaiman