Chance is the providence of adventurers.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Laurence Housman

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Doug Coupland

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

Richard Siken

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him alife not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. Thiswas a common combination on the planet Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Henry James

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion

Samuel Johnson

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Harold Evans

I get such lovely gifts from fans... amazing pictures, handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!

Leona Lewis

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

St. Francis De Sales

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Star Jones

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Frank Crane

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

Blu Cantrell