If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

~ George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)

Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. 

~ Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914) 

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. 

~ Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. 

~  Ancient Indian Proverb

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. 

~ Mark Twain

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. 

~ Jim Rohn

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. 

~ Roger Ebert, film-critic (1942-2013)

Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration. 

~ Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971) 

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. 

~ William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939) 

I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words! 

~ Anne Frank, diarist (1929-1945) 

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. 

~ Arthur Christopher Benson

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. 

~ Alice Walker, poet and novelist (b. 1944) 

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. 

~ Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (1915-2005) 

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. 

 ~ Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870) 

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. 

~ Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, and playwright (1799-1837

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. 

~ Federico García Lorca, poet, playwright, and painter (1898-1936) 

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. 

~ Susan B Anthony, reformer and suffragist (1820-1906) 

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. 

~ Allen Ginsberg, poet (1926-1997) 

It's not about what you have or what you don't have, it's more about your journey and your perspective that's important to people. 

~ Pharrell Williams, singer-songwriter.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. 

~ Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964) 

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. 

~ John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)