As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Peace Pilgrim

When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.

Shall Sinha

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Aldous Huxley

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

Virginia Woolf

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

Antonio Gramsci

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Stephen King

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

Curt Schilling

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Jacob Bronowski

Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

Melina Marchetta

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Samuel Johnson