War is the science of destruction.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

Thomas Jefferson

There is no reason to regard God as immune fromconsideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there iscertainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neitherproved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.

Richard Dawkins

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

Sam Sheppard

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Roddy Doyle

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

James A. Baldwin

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Frank Tyger

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Libba Bray

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone