"Writing is the only socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia."
~E.L. Doctorow
"People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk."
~Robert Bloch
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
~Jorge Luis Borges
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
...
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
~William Shakespeare
"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
~George Washington
"It's not that I'm so smart, I just stay with problems longer."
~Albert Einstein
"My life is my message."
~Mahatma Ganhi
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
~Ernest Hemingway
"Humor is also a way of saying something serious."
~T. S. Eliot
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
~Henry David Thoreau
"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that have one."
~Lord Chsterfield
"It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."
~Adlai Stevenson