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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

Winston Churchill

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller

“The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.”

--Louis Aragon

"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny."

Steven Wright

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.


-Conrad Aiken

"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified."

E. O. Wilson

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.


-H. G. Wells

"Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?""

Fran Lebowitz

“It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands”

-Spanish Proverb

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."

Maya Angelou