You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. Ursula LeGuin on change
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. Tom Lehrer on age
Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry Michael Leiris on dreams
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. John Leonard on boldness
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Oscar Levent on happiness
Beauty: it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and it you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you ha James Matthew Barrie on beauty
...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. James Matthew Barrie on beauty
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. Stephen Levine on inspiration
It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. C.S. Lewis on bore
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. Sinclair Lewis on advertise
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg on intelligence
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. John Lilly on change
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. William Lilly on success
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we mustrise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln on change
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. Abraham Lincoln on decision
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln on freedom
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln on inspiration
Peace will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have to be proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their cases and pay the cost. Abraham Lincoln on peace
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Abraham Lincoln on truth
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of man, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them. Abraham Lincoln on understanding