When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it. 

- Charles de Lint, writer (b. 22 Dec 1951) 

Whenever books are burned men also, in the end are burned. 

- Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, and essayist (13 Dec 1797-1856) 

It's better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life.
- Paulo Coelho

Some people around us will not understand our journey. They don't need to; It's not for them.
- Paulo Coelho

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. 

- Naguib Mahfouz, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1911-2006)

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

- James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (8 Dec 1894-1961) 

La connerie, c'est la déconcentration de l'intelligence.  ( Fr )

Stupidity, it's the loss of concentration of intelligence. ( En )

- Serge Gainsbourg

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. 

- Harriet Lerner, psychologist (b. 30 Nov 1944) 

If you have a dream, don’t waste your energies explaining the reason.

- Paulo Coelho

The most difficult battles that you will fight in your life is that between your mind who knows the truth and your heart that refuse to accept it.

- Paulo Coelho

Our power is in what we do and what we do not do.

- Paulo Coelho

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)

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

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

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love. 
- Claude Monet, painter (14 Nov 1840-1926) 

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. 

- Henry van Dyke, poet (10 Nov 1852-1933)

Your voice dries up if you don't use it. 

- Patti Page, singer (8 Nov 1927-2013) 

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) 

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. 
- Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972) 

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. 

- Brenda Ueland, journalist, editor, and writer (24 Oct 1891-1985) 

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. 

- Arthur Miller, playwright, and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)