Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)


The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson


When you're not sure you trust a person any more you start wishing they'd do something really, really wrong, just so you can be right about them.
-Angela on "My So-Called Life"


To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
-Sir Winston Churchill


To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
-E.E. Cummings


The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart it buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within, not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.
-Stephen King