I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

Alfred Tennyson

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Whitley Strieber

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Oscar Wilde

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

Simon Schama

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Dickens

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Charles M. Schwab

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Bob Dylan

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L'Amour

One half of our brethren who fight and pay taxes, are excluded, like Helots, from the rights of representation, as if society were instituted for the soil, and not for the men inhabiting it; or one half of these could dispose of the rights and the will of the other half, without their consent.

Thomas Jefferson

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri