If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

James Altucher

Literature is news that STAYS news.

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her.

Aminatta Forna

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Charles Darwin

You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.

Tom Vilsack

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

Cassandra Clare

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

George Eliot

Politics makes strange bed-fellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

Understanding life is like trying to put together a puzzle with pieces that don't fit.

Dave Guerrero

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

Orlando Bloom

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Neil Gaiman