We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.
Charlie Shedd
Do to others what you would have them do to you.
Bible
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Allan Bloom
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Nelson Algren
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
Delmore Schwartz
The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
Mikhail Strabo
If we had had more time for discussion, we probably would have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Ralph Ellison
When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it.
Philip Roth
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
William Faulkner
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
Marcel Proust
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic
Henry James
More will mean worse.
Martin Amis
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
Noam Chomsky
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
Count Leo Tolstoy
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
Studs Terkel
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
Norman Mailer
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon