Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is melancholy to reflect that Mankind has suffered more from ill-judged philanthropy than from calculated malice. The road to Hell is no less harrowing for being paved with good intentions.

Giles St. Aubyn, biography of Ki

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.

Vijali Hamilton

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Adam Ant

There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all.

Source Unknown

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

William Least Heat-Moon

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

Paul Kantner

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

Seth Rogen

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

P. J. O'Rourke

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Evelyn Waugh

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Stephen King

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

Jodi Picoult