Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. Diverse thoughts on how to live your life.

"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others"
- Amelia Earhart

"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh. Erotic nightmares beyond any measure and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Don't dream it, be it"
- Frank N Furter

"What do the good know except what the bad have taught them through their excesses?"
- The Candyman

"Fucking let's do it"
- The SAS

"You might very well say that. But I couldn't possibly comment"
- Francis Urquhart

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt"
- Bertrand Russell

"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get"
- Mark Twain

"If at first you don't succeed, use a higher calibre ordnance"
- Mr Flibble

"God is dead" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead" - God
"When I'm God everyone dies" - Marilyn Manson

"Number rules the Universe"
- The Pythagoreans

"Life is but a thin sliver of light between two immensities of darkness"
- anon

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"
- Winston Churchill

"Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all"
- Marilyn Manson

"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!"
Cate Blanchett

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society"
- Mark Twain

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"
- Nietzsche

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior"
- Confucius

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood. At best, he knows the triumph of high achievement; if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer"
-Albert Camus

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it"
- Voltaire

"Wisest is he who knows he does not know"
- Socrates

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"
- anon

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
- Steven Wright

"Life isn't a dress rehearsal"
- Kate Winslet

"I would rather be ashes than dust, a spark burnt out in a brilliant blaze, than be stifled in dry rot... For man's chief purpose is to live, not to exist; I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them; I shall use my time"
- Jack London

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
- Oscar Wilde

Now I recognise of course that many of the above expounders of wit are fictitious and in some cases not even human but this does not lessen the profundity of what they were saying.

This page is largely under construction and has remarkably little to do with Scientology. Or does it?
'Curiouser and curiouser', thought Alice.

Of course it is much easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.