I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

All stories are love stories.

Robert McLiam Wilson

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

Mariska Hargitay

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

Tacitus

You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.

Neil Gaiman

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...

Neil Gaiman

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

Soleil Moon Frye

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Lucinda Franks

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Greg Norman

All actual life is encounter.

Martin Buber, I and Thou, 1923