The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. 

~ Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist (18 Dec 1946-1977) 

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. 

~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, judge, and politician (17 Dec 1796-1865) 

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

~ Paulo Coelho

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. 

~ Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978) 

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

~ Paulo Coelho

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? 

~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1918-2008) 

Fame is a bee.

It has a song 

It has a sting 

Ah, too, it has a wing. 

~ Emily Dickinson, poet (10 Dec 1830-1886) 

The mind is its own place, and in itself, Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 

~ John Milton (9 Dec 1608-1674) 

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. 

~ Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (b. 7 Dec 1928) 

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order. 

~ Jean-Luc Godard, film director (b. 3 Dec 1930) 

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. 

~ Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963) 

An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do." 

~ Jonathan Swift, satirist (30 Nov 1667-1745) 

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

~ Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (27 Nov 1942-1970) 

The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another. 

~ Charles Schulz, cartoonist (26 Nov 1922-2000) 

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

~ Mark Twain

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard.

~ Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961) 

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it. 
~ Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (19 Nov 1909-2005) 

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like. 

~ Soichiro Honda, industrialist (17 Nov 1906-1991) 

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. 

~ Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (16 Nov 1930-2013) 

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. 

~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., writer (11 Nov 1922-2007) 

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. 

~ Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (10 Nov 1730-1774) 

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. 

~ Carl Sagan, astronomer and author (9 Nov 1934-1996) 

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don’t be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

~ Mark Twain

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. 

~ Confucius.

Do you wish the world were happy? 

Then remember day by day,

Just to scatter seeds of kindness

As you pass along the way. 

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (5 Nov 1850-1919) 

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. 

~ Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935) 

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.

~ General George Patton.

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it, chopped down its forests, leveled its hills, muddied its waters, and dirtied its air. That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. 

~ Rose Bird, Chief Justice of California Supreme Court (2 Nov 1936-1999) 

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

~ Zig Ziglar, author, salesman, and motivational speaker.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. 

~ Desiderius Erasmus, philosopher, humanist, and theologian (28 Oct 1466-1536) 

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. 

~ Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989) 

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (21 Oct 1772-1834)

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing thing. 

~ Henry Miller.

If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius. 

~ Michelangelo

No man's credit is as good as his money. 

~ John Dewey, philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (20 Oct 1859-1952) 

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. 

~ Lewis Mumford, writer and philosopher (19 Oct 1895-1990) 

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

~ Henry Miller.

Who, being loved, is poor ? 

~ Oscar Wilde, writer (16 Oct 1854-1900) 

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. 

~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900) 

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. 

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th president (14 Aug 1890-1969) 

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

~ Rumi 

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. 

~ Alice Childress, playwright, author, and actor (12 Oct 1916-1994) 

We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. 

~ John W. Gardner, author and leader (8 Oct, 1912-2002) 

Writing is thinking on paper. 

~ William Zinsser, writer and editor (7 Oct 1922-2015) 

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. 

~ George H. Lorimer, editor (6 Oct 1867-1937) 

Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world. 

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author (b. 5 Oct 1958)

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. 

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948) 

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. 

~ Truman Capote, author (30 Sep 1924-1984) 

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.

~ Georges Clemenceau, statesman (28 Sep 1841-1929) 

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. 
~ William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962) 

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. 

~ Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797) 

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. 

~ Walter Lippmann, journalist (23 Sep 1889-1974) 

Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. 

~  Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 Sep 1694-1773)

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one. 

~ Johann Peter Eckermann, poet (21 Sep 1792-1854) 

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men. 

~ Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (18 Sep 1709-1784) 

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. 

~ Jean Arp, artist and poet (16 Sep 1887-1948) 

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. 

~ Napoleon Hill

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest", but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. 

~ Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (14 Sep 1917-1986) 

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recordings of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. 

~ Henry David Thoreau

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. 
~ Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (10 Sep 1903-1974) 

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. 

~ Edith Sitwell, poet (7 Sep 1887-1964) 

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. 

~ Mary Renault, novelist (4 Sep 1905-1983) 

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. 

~ Henry George, economist, journalist, philosopher (2 Sep 1839-1897) 

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." 

~ Maria Montessori, educator (31 Aug 1870-1952) 

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together. 

~ Rita Dove, poet (b. 28 Aug 1952) 

When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. 

~ William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. 

~ John Buchan, poet, novelist, and politician (26 Aug 1875-1940) 

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. 

~ Jorge Luis Borges, writer (24 Aug 1899-1986) 

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. 

~ Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE) 

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. 

~ Edgar Guest, poet (20 Aug 1881-1959) 

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. 

~ Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971) 

Dreams heed no borders, the eyes need no visas. With eyes shut I walk across the line in time. All the time. 

~ Gulzar, poet, lyricist, and film director (b. 18 Aug 1934) 

The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse. 

~ Herta Müller, novelist, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 17 Aug 1953) 

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education. ... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments. 

~ Russell Baker, columnist and author (b. 14 Aug 1925) 

I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. 

~ Mary Roberts Rinehart, novelist (12 Aug 1876-1958) 

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. 

~ Garrison Keillor, radio host and author (b. 7 Aug 1942) 

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. 

~ Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (5 Aug 1850-1893) 

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (4 Aug 1792-1822) 

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. 

~ P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014) 

Trust is the first step to love. 

~ Munshi Premchand, novelist and poet (31 Jul 1880-1936) 

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 
~ Henry Ford, industrialist (30 Jul 1863-1947) 

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. 

~ Robert Quillen, journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948)

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

~ Aristotle Onassis

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. 

~ Marcel Duchamp, artist (28 Jul 1887-1968) 

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. 

~ Stephen King

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recordings of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. 

~ Henry David Thoreau

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. 

~ Raymond Thornton Chandler, writer (23 Jul 1888-1959)

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. 

~ William Plomer

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. 

~ Voltaire

What's done to children, they will do to society. 

~ Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist (22 Jul 1893-1990) 

In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.

~ Peter F. Drucker

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. 

~ Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer (20 Jul 1919-2008) 

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor. 

~ Cory Doctorow, author and journalist (b. 17 Jul 1971) 

Choose only one master - Nature. 

~ Rembrandt, painter and etcher (15 Jul 1606-1669) 

Literature encourages tolerance - bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.

~ Northrop Frye, writer and critic (14 Jul 1912-1991)

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. 

~ John Clare, poet (13 Jul 1793-1864) 

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

~ Peter Drucker

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. 

~ Arthur Helps, writer (10 Jul 1813-1875) 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that people can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. 

~ William James

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand and the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. 

~ Henry Ford

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit. 

~  Conrad Hilton

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing -that’s why we recommend it daily.

~ Zig Ziglar

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender, it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment. 

~ Stephen Covey

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. 

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (8 Jul 1926-2004) 

In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision. 

~ Peter F. Drucker

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. 

~ Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (7 Jul 1907-1988) 

A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us. 

~ Franz Kafka, novelist (3 Jul 1883-1924) 

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1 Jul 1742-1799) 

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (29 Jun 1900-1944) 

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person. 

~ Virginia Satir, psychotherapist and author (26 Jun 1916-1988)

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. 

~ George Orwell, writer (25 Jun 1903-1950) 

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first. 

~ Ambrose Bierce, writer (24 Jun 1842-1914) 

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. 

~ Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662) 

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. 

~ Igor Stravinsky, composer (17 Jun 1882-1971)

The [Nobel] prize is such an extraordinary honor. It might seem unfair, however, to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses. 

~ Barbara McClintock, scientist, Nobel laureate (16 Jun 1902-1992) 

No one has ever become poor by giving. 

~ Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (12 Jun 1929-1945)

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. 

~ John Constable, painter (11 Jun 1776-1837) 

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper. 

~ E.O. Wilson, biologist (b. 10 Jun 1929) 

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. 

~ Marguerite Yourcenar, novelist (8 Jun 1903-1987) 

I'm sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots." 

~ George T. Angell, reformer (5 Jun 1823-1909)

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. 

~ Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937) 

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few. 

~ Lawrence Lessig, professor and political activist (b. 3 Jun 1961) 

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. 

~ Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (2 Jun 1840-1928) 

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

~ John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (29 May 1917-1963)

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 

~ William Pitt, British prime minister (28 May 1759-1806) 

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (25 May 1803-1882) 

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. 

~ Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930) 

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. 

~ Oscar Wilde

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. 

~ Honore de Balzac, novelist (20 May 1799-1850) 

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. 

~ Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (18 May 1872-1970) 

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate. 

~ Max Frisch, architect, playwright, and novelist (15 May 1911-1991) 

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. 

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

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. 

~ Hal Borland, author and journalist (14 May 1900-1978) 

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. 

~ Daphne du Maurier, novelist (13 May 1907-1989) 

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. 

~ Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, preacher, journalist, and activist (1802-1861)

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. 

~ Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (11 May 1918-1988) 

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail. 

~ Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (7 May 1861-1941) 

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. 

~ Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939)

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. 

~ Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957) 

A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron. 

~ Horace Mann, educational reformer (4 May 1796-1859)

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. 

~ Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931) 

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

~ Godfrey Winn

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. 

~ Annie Dillard, author (b. 30 Apr 1945)

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit....Life is either a great adventure or nothing. 

~ Helen Keller 

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. 

~ Jerry Seinfeld, comedian (b. 29 Apr 1954) 

"Don't think of it as dying," said Death. "Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush." 

~ Terry Pratchett, novelist (Apr 28 1948-2015)

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation. 

~ Herbert Spencer, philosopher (Apr 27 1820-1903) 

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. 

~ Anthony Trollope, novelist (24 Apr 1815-1882)

Words without thoughts never to heaven go. 

~ Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (23 Apr 1564-1616) 

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. 

~ Madame de Stael, writer (22 Apr 1766-1817) 

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. 

~ Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (21 Apr 1818-1885) 

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. 

~ Robert Lynd, writer (20 Apr 1879-1949)

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. 

~ Thornton Wilder, writer (17 Apr 1897-1975) 

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. 

~ Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924)

When you’re loved, you doubt nothing. When you love, you doubt everything.

 ~ Colette

A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, - both grammatically and actually, - whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it. 

~ James Branch Cabell, novelist, essayist, critic (14 Apr 1879-1958) 

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. 

~ Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (13 Apr 1949-2011) 

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. 

~ Anne Lamott, writer (b. 10 Apr 1954) 

Bad weather always looks worse through a window. 

~ Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928) 

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. 

~ Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794)

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

~ Rosalynn Carter

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. 

~ Edward Everett Hale, author (3 Apr 1822-1909) 

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. 

~ Emile Zola, writer (2 Apr 1840-1902) 

Make no judgments where you have no compassion. 

~ Anne McCaffrey, writer (1 Apr 1926-2011) 

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. 

~ Leo Buscaglia, author, speaker and professor (31 Mar 1924-1998)