"A coward judges all he sees by what he is."
— Stephen King (The Dark Tower)

"100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction."
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time!"
— Lt Gen Chesty Puller

"Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do."
— Byron Katie

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

"The major problem- one of the major problems, for there are several- one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of whom manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness."
— Anaïs Nin

"Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value."
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
— Stephen W. Hawking (A Brief History of Time)

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is."
— Rollo May

"How often we as humans think that life is 'meaningless' or that the world is 'doomed'. If beauty is meaning, if the breadth and insistent diversity of life is sufficient Mystery, then such pessimism is not only silly, but so is our entire view on life. How can we think to give up on a world that is too large for us to have?"
— Felicity Shoulders

"I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human."
— Ben Stein

"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."
— Mark Twain

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning."
— Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions)