War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'mNarcissus.

Steven Wright

Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Ezra Pound

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Carroll O'Connor

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Abraham Lincoln

It wasn't somebody big and strong that helped me. No. It was somebody weak that needed me.

Yossi Ghinsberg

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Elbert Hubbard

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

Yogi Berra

People say that God created mankind after his image. This means that man created God after his image.

Leo Tolstoy