"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

Beecher, Henry Ward | Laughter | 2 bookmarks

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Nietzsche, Friedrich | Conformity | 2 bookmarks

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

Kennedy, John F. | Conformity | 2 bookmarks

"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."

Einstein, Albert | Conformity | 2 bookmarks

"Conform and be dull."

Doble, J. Frank | Conformity | 2 bookmarks

"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."

Anthony, Dr. Robert | Conformity | 4 bookmarks

"Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

Faulkner, William | Books - Reading | 5 bookmarks

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

Erasmus, Desiderius | Books - Reading | 3 bookmarks

"Never judge a book by its movie."

Eagan, J. W. | Books - Reading | 4 bookmarks

"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."

Disraeli, Isaac | Books - Reading | 2 bookmarks