The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. 

~ John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704) 

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your ( our ) search for happiness will never end. ~ Bob Marley

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. 

~ Martin Amis, novelist (b. 1949) 

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. 

~ Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920-2012)

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

~ Helen Keller

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. 

~ AA Milne author (1882-1956) 

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots. 

~ HP Lovecraft, short-story writer and novelist (1890-1937)

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. 

~ Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) 

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. 

~ Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (1899-1977) 

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. 

~ Walter Scott, novelist and poet (1771-1832) 

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

~  Romain Rolland (Roman Scholar)

 

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. 

~ Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) 

Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right. 

~ Henry Ford

No amount of belief makes something a fact. 

~ James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 1928) 

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. 

~ Karl Popper, philosopher and a professor (1902-1994) 

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. 

~ Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (1850-1893)

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. 

~ Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1819-1891) 

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. 

~ J.K. Rowling, author (b. 1965)