I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.

I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There were a handful of fireflies flickering intermittently, some so close to me I could see they were burning green as they flew, and some further away, who seemed to be flashing white.And in the sky above them a continual roil of distant summer lightning (the storm distant enough that it was silent) burned and flashed and illuminated the clouds. It seemed as if the lightning bugs were talking to the lightning, in a perfect call and response of flash and counterflash. I watched the sky and the meadow flash and flash while the dog walked ahead of me, and realised that I was perfectly happy...

Neil Gaiman

The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.

Neil L. Andersen

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.

C. JoyBell C.

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

Julie Burchill

It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.

Michel de Montaigne

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.

John Green

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

Albert Einstein

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

Lillie Langtry

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Thomas Sowell

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Fernando Pessoa

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

C.S. Lewis

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld