“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"I want to create wilderness out of empire." ~ Gary Snyder
"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use." ~ Mark Twain
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."
~George Washington Carver
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." ~Albert Einstein
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You don't love because .... You love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
~William Faulkner
"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
~Mark Twain
"It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth." ~Gao Xingjian
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." ~Stephen King
"Do what you will; this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
~William Blake
"It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise." ~Nancy Thayer
"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." ~Jim Rohn
"Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do." ~John Wooden
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ~Frederick Douglass
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
~William Shakespeare
"Simplicity is the result of profound thought." ~Fortune Cookie
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." ~C.S. Lewis
"The wise does at once what the fool does at last." ~Baltasar Gracian