Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

It is not worth singing for ourselves; it is nicer if two people sing together. Then more people: hundreds, thousands, until the huge Harmony can be heard, in which we can all be just one, indeed. Then will we be able to say:

Zolt, Bicinia Hungarica, 1937

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

Russell Means

O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?

William Shakespeare, Henry IV Pa

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Walt Disney

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

When we are bored, when we are out of tune, when we have little worries, it clears our feelings and changes our mood if we can get in touch with the beauty of the natural world.

Edward Grey

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

Henry David Thoreau

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.

George Mikes

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

George Bernard Shaw

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Bernard Cornwell

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel