"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Good Life Quotes #Son Quotes #Volunteer Quotes

“Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.”
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
“After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.”
“People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third”
“No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.”
“If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.”
“The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.”
“I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name?”

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