'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.'

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

William Joyce

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

Jean Baudrillard

The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress.

J. William Fulbright

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

Orson Scott Card

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

Larry David

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.

John Green

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Marcel Proust

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Bernard Baruch

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Marcus Aurelius