In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Chris Bailey

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

Hillary Clinton

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

George Gurdjieff

There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only reflect what he BELIEVES he believes, or what he thinks he should believe or what he's been persuaded of. But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs that you don't even think to question, that you don't even notice-- those will show up. And that tells much more truth about what you believe than your deliberate moral machinations.

Orson Scott Card

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Elvis Presley

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Paulo Coelho

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Heinrich Heine, attributed at hi

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

Kristin Scott Thomas

The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.

George R.R. Martin