In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

George Eliot

Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success.

Stephen Richards

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

Stephenie Meyer

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.

American Indian Proverb

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

Louise Mensch

Many people hold onto a grudge because it offers the illusion of power and a perverse feeling of security. But in fact, we are held hostage by our anger. It is never too late to forgive. But you can forgive too soon. I am especially wary of what I call saintly forgiveness. Premature forgiveness is common among people who avoid conflict. They're afraid of their own anger and the anger of others. But their forgiveness is false. Their anger goes underground. I define forgiving as letting someone back into your heart. This returns us to a loving state -- and not merely within the relationship -- we feel good about ourselves and the world. True forgiveness isn't easy, but it transforms us significantly. To forgive is to love and to feel worthy of love. In that sense, it is always worthwhile.

Robert Karen, Phd, Bottom Line P

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

You must be willing to do the things today others don't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have.

Les Brown, Live Your Dreams

Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes from the fact that the very notion that makes the problem of freedom possible also takes away all its meaning. For in the presence of God there is less a problem of freedom than a problem of evil. You know the alternative: either we are not free and God the all-powerful is responsible for evil. Or we are free and responsible but God is not all powerful. All the scholastic subtleties have neither added anything to nor subtracted anything from the acuteness of this paradox.

Albert Camus

When it's breezy, hit it easy.

Davis Love, Jr.

With my 10 fingers and toes and perhaps 80 years of life, the enormity of time threatens the gaskets of my mind.

Chris Hadfield

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Phillips Brooks