The secret to creativity is to hide your sources

-Albert Einstein

The often unreflected respect for old laws, old customs, and old Religion we have to thank for all the mischief in the world 

-Georg Lichtenberg

Whatever I was looking for, it was always you 

- Rumi

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

- Mark Twain

There is no friend as loyal as a book

-Ernest Hemmingway

(Journalists like you belong to) what we call the reality-based community...(people who) believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable reality...That's not the way the world really works anymore.  We're an Empire now, and when we act, we can create our own reality.  And while you're studying that reality - judiciously as you will -we'll act again, creating other new realities which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.  We're history's actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

-Karl Rove

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart

-Khalil Gilbran

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory

-Dr. Seuss

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex

-Aldous Huxley

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

-Frank Dane

What is better - to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort

-Paarthurnax (Sykrim)

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts

-Charles Dickens

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them

-German Proverb

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

-Phyllis McGinley

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving

-Russel Green

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth

- Fred Rogers

“Every woman”

he starts to say,

then looks around

-Anon

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need

-Cicero

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one

-Voltaire

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." 
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

--Through the Looking Glass, Louis Carroll

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. 

-Douglas Adams

Lord what fools these mortals be 

-Puck (William Shakespeare, Midsummer Nights Dream)

Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed 

-Charles X

Dum spiro spero. (While I breathe, I hope)

-Latin Proverb

The world wants to be deceived 

- Sebastian Brant

A liar should have a good memory 

-Quintillian

There are some remedies worse than the disease

-Publius Syrus

If I cannot bend Heaven I shall move Hell 

- Virgil

A man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, drink and be merry 

-Ecclesiastes 8:15

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents

-George Orwell

Fear not hell, for if it exists you shall find yourself in good company

-H.L. Mencken

If you wish to go fast, go alone.  If you wish to go far, go together 

-African proverb

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

-Albert Einstein

States are not moral agents, people are and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions

-Noam Chomsky

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream 

-Edgar Allen Poe

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having opinions at all

-Georg Lichtenberg

You are not a drop in the ocean.  
You are the entire ocean in a drop

-Rumi

He is a self-made man and worships his educator 

- John Bright

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they will kill you

-Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or imbeciles who really mean it. 

- Mark Twain

Some people are just born human, the rest of us take a lifetime to get there

-Rant Casey (Chuck Palahniuk)

We must be careful about what we pretend to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut

Never confuse movement with action

-Ernest Hemmingway

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

-John F. Kennedy

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

-Jack London

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

-John Ruskin

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

-Loan Pearsall Smith

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

-Peter F. Drucker

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams

-John Barrymore