How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Euripides

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Cavett Robert

To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps... loosen them up.

Orson Scott Card

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Jim Woodring

No wonder lasts over three days.

Proverb

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Johann von Goethe

I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Albert Camus

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Steven Wright

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

Kirstie Alley

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

Sarah Addison Allen