Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

C. Northcote Parkinson

When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricor

Do the Duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

Joni Mitchell

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

E. L. Doctorow

In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.

Albert Camus

Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

Lionel Trilling

It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

William Shakespeare