The virtues chose Modesty to be their queen. I did not know that I was a virtue, she said. Why did you not choose Innocence? Because of her ignorance, they replied. She knows nothing but that she is a virtue.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

James Ellroy

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Stephen King

Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

George Wald

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Arabic Proverb

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Cyril Connolly

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives.

Anon.

Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.

Ben Johnston

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Earl Nightingale

One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life.

Source Unknown

the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's.

Patrick Ness