If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Blame is safer than praise.

Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.

The deepest waters make the least noise.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

The covers of this book are too far apart.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.

Killing time murders opportunities.