Clever quotes and proverbs

1.Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.-Chinese proverb
2.A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.-German proverb
3.Memory is the primary and fundamental power,without which there could be no other intellectual operation.-Samuel Johnson
4.The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.-Maya Angelou
5.Hunger steals the memory.-Louise Erdrich(b.1954)
6.I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.-Louise Erdrich
7.Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place.He didn't discover America.-Louise Erdrich
8.Love won't be tampered with,love won't go away.Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.-Louise Erdrich
9.I don't have a cental metaphor for my life.I only have chaos.I now read that there is some kind of order even in chaos,and that's comforting.-Louise Erdrich