There is a rumor going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. 

~ Terry Pratchett, novelist (b. 1948) 

You only have to do a very few things right in your life, So as long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

~ Warren Buffett

I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think. 

~ Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel laureate (1900-1958) 

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. 

~ Anthony Trollope, novelist (1815-1882) 

Myth: we have to save the earth. Frankly, the earth doesn't need to be saved. Nature doesn't give a hoot if human beings are here or not. The planet has survived cataclysmic and catastrophic changes for millions upon millions of years. Over that time, it is widely believed, 99 percent of all species have come and gone while the planet has remained. Saving the environment is really about saving our environment - making it safe for ourselves, our children, and the world as we know it. If more people saw the issue as one of saving themselves, we would probably see increased motivation and commitment to actually do so. 

~ Robert M. Lilienfeld, management consultant and author (b. 1953) and William L. Rathje, archaeologist and author (b. 1945) 

In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another. 

~ John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) 

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. 

~ Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955) 

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. 

~ Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962) 

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. 

~ Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924) 

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. 

~ Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. 

~ Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) 

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. 

~ William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830) 

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. 

~ Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941) 

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

~ William Wordsworth, poet (1770-1850)

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

~ Maya Angelou,poet (b. 1928)

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

~ Washington Irving, writer (1783-1859)

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

~ Emile Zola, writer (1840-1902)

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

~ Abraham Maslow, psychologist (1908-1970)