The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons

Ernest Hemingway

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Soren Kierkegaard

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Ogden Nash

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

Anon.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Honore de Balzac

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find,The best of now and here.

John Greenleaf Whittier, MY PSAL

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Allan Bloom

A precedent embalms a principle.

Benjamin Disraeli

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Kurt Vonnegut

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

Rob Bell

I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

Robert A. Heinlein