I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing. (Charles Bukowski)

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. (Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire)

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it. (John Owen)

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. (Mao Zedong)

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. (Leo C. Rosten)

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. (Alexandre Dumas)

Love and you shall be loved. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence. (George Barrell Cheever)

Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. (Publilius Syrus)

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. (G. K. Chesterton)

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. (Orson Scott Card)

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. (Benjamin Franklin)

You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you. (Euripides)

When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature. (Ernest Hemingway)

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. (Quida)

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. (Publilius Syrus)

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. (David Russell)