Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

C. S. Lewis

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
- C. S. Lewis

Alfred Korzybski

The map is not the territory.
- Alfred Korzybski

Charles Horton Cooley

An artist cannot fail,it is a success to be one.
- Charles Horton Cooley

Terry Pratchett

“In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. ”

- Terry Pratchett (1948 -)

David Letterman

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
- David Letterman

Mary Kay Utech

Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.
- Mary Kay Utech

Rabindranath Tagore

"You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water."
- Rabindranath Tagore

Kahlil Gibran

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine
- Kahlil Gibran

Benjamin Disraeli

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
- Benjamin Disraeli

Dr. Thomas Fuller

"All things are difficult before they are easy."
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Rita Mae Brown

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
- Rita Mae Brown

Franz Kafka

"There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
- Franz Kafka

Albert Guinon

"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
- Albert Guinon

Mahatma Gandhi

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde

H. L. Mencken

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
- H. L. Mencken

Mark Twain

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain