"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus

"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
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— Douglas Bader

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"“Meow” means “woof” in cat. "
— George Carlin

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

"Books may well be the only true magic."
— Alice Hoffman

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."
— George Carlin

"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."
— George Carlin

"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
— Robert H. Schuller

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov

"Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better. "
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. "
— Ray Bradbury

"Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe."
— L. Ron Hubbard

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
— Isaac Asimov

"And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. "
— Isaac Asimov

"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
— Agatha Christie

"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
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— Agatha Christie

"One never knows, do one?"
— Lawrence Sanders

"...age-old evil, tireless and vigilant, cloaked from the masses by modern skepticism, yet still a potent force stalking the dark ways of the night."
— Dennis Wheatley (The Devil Rides Out)

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."
— Booker T. Washington

"Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance."
— Eric Hoffer

"A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves."
— E. Stanley Jones

"Hate cages all the good things about you. "
— Madrianne Arvore

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less."
— Eldridge Cleaver

"It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged."
— Cornelius Tacitus

"Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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— Honoré de Balzac

"A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

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— Jean de LaBruyere

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

"Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
— Erich Fromm

"Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt."
— Tom Gates

"The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails."
— William Shakespeare

"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends"
— Robert South

"Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."
— Robert South

"Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction."
— Rowena Cherry (Knight's Fork)

"What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control.

"For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me!"

("Marsh", heroine of Insufficient Mating Material)"
— Rowena Cherry (Insufficient Mating Material)

"If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract...

-- Rhett"
— Rowena Cherry (Insufficient Mating Material)

"Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles…

-Electra"
— Rowena Cherry (Knight's Fork)

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

"Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. "
— Jeff Lindsay

"What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur."
— Jeff Lindsay (Dearly Devoted Dexter)

"Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,..."
— Jeff Lindsay

"Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion. "
— Jeff Lindsay

"I'm not sure what I am. I just know there's something dark in me. I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it, but it's there always, this Dark Passenger. And when he's driving, I feel alive, half sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don't fight him, I don't want to. He's all I've got. Nothing else could love me, not even... especially not me. Or is that just a lie the Dark Passenger tells me? Because lately there are these moments when I feel connected to something else... someone. It's like the mask is slipping and things... people... who never mattered before are suddenly starting to matter. It scares the hell out of me."
— Jeff Lindsay (Darkly Dreaming Dexter)

"And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self."
— Jeff Lindsay (Darkly Dreaming Dexter)

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Character is not measured by moments of success, it is measured by the grace in which you move through adversity."
— Stefan Nelek

"Yes We Can!"
— Barack Obama

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "
— Isaac Asimov