Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Maggie Gallagher

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

Carter Burwell

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

Henry David Thoreau

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

James Fenimore Cooper

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Ernest Hemingway

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Bruce Lee

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

King Hussein I

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.

C.S. Lewis