Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. 
~ Rose Franken, author and playwright (28 Dec 1895-1988) 

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other ? 

 ~ George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (22 Nov 1819-22 Dec 1880) 

If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions. 

~ Susanne Langer, philosopher (20 Dec 1895-1985) 

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. 

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

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. 

~ Muriel Rukeyser, poet and activist (15 Dec 1913-1980) 

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. 

~ Ross Macdonald, novelist (13 Dec 1915-1983) 

The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. 

~ Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (12 Dec 1902-1981) 

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. 

~ Louis de Bernieres, novelist (b. 8 Dec 1954) 

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. 

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

A timid question will always receive a confident answer. 

~ Charles John Darling, lawyer, judge, and politician (6 Dec 1849-1936) 

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. 

~ Christina Rossetti, poet (5 Dec 1830-1894) 

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) 

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. 

~ Madeleine L'Engle, writer (29 Nov 1918-2007) 

One law for the lion and ox is oppression. 

~ William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (28 Nov 1757-1827) 

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. 
~ Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (25 Nov 1835-1919)