It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

William Faulkner

What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.

Santosh Kalwar

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

LeBron James

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

Ben Hecht

If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.

Leo Burnett

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx, Criticism of Hegel's

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

J. G. Ballard

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Jonathan Swift

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

Martha Beck

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

Rodney Dangerfield

Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.

Orson Scott Card