If you want to achieve your greatest self, be your own biggest fan.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Arthur Miller

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

Oscar Wilde

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

Ally Carter

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

Bernadine Dorn

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

Bob Graham

Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights.

Santosh Kalwar

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Milan Kundera

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Samuel Johnson

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Adam Sandler

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Francesco Petrarch

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Theodore Parker