I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Thomas Carlyle

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Samuel Johnson

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

Ambrose Bierce

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Michel de Montaigne

The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.

Albert Einstein

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Rod Laver

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Joni Mitchell

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Thank are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - Hamlet, A

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

Thomas Lennon

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

Eric Hoffer

Only one who loves can remember so well.

Anton Chekhov