Douglas Adams:

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

Ansel Adams:

"Photography is a way of telling what you feel about what you see."

Ansel Adams:

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."

Diane Ackerman:

"I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it."

Ansel Adams:

"To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer'."

James Trulow Adam:

"The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

Edward Abbey:

"When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something."

Edward Abbey:

"What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse."

Edward Abbey:

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

Henry David Thoreau:

"Every natural form -- palm leaves and acorns, oak leaves and sumach and dodder -- are untranslatable aphorisms."

Baltasar Gracian:

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."

Miguel de Unamuno:

"We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past."

Miguel de Unamuno:

"We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past."

Blaise Pascal:

"Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength."

Rudolf Arnheim:

"Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit."

George Eliot:

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

Stanislaw J. Lec:

"Who knows what Columbus would have discovered if America hadn't got in the way."

William Blake:

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

Bruce Barton:

"When you are through changing, you are through."

Oscar Wilde:

"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read."

Stanislaw J. Lec:

"We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to apply it."

Desiderius Erasmus:

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

Henry Becque:

"What makes equality such difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors."

Cardinal De Retz:

"There are no small steps in great affairs."

Emerson:

"Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you."

Montesquieu:

"Justice to others is charity for ourselves."

Maria Von Ebner-Eschenbach:

"Many priceless things can be bought."

Elizabeth Bibesco:

"To a man of the world the universe is a suburb."

Don Marquis:

"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."

Pope:

"We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to."

Kin Hubbard:

"There is one advantage of being poor - a doctor will cure you faster."

George Eliot:

"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."

Gerald Brenan:

"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."

William Shenstone:

"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."

Jules Renard:

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others."

Logan Pearsall Smith:

"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves."

Baudelaire:

"No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare."

Gracian:

"For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think it done."

Carlo Dossi:

"The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others."

George Santayana:

"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."