Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

He knew everything about big Mike Ainsel in this moment, and he liked Mike Ainsel. Mike Ainsel had none of the problems that Shadow had. Ainsel had never been married. Mike Ainsel had never been interrogated on a freight train by Mr. Wood an Mr. Stone. Televisions did not speak to Mike Ainsel (You want to see Lucy's tits? asked a voice in his head)

Neil Gaiman

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Blaise Pascal

Never forget:we walk on hell,gazing at flowers.

Kobayashi Issa

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

Ernest Hemingway

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Michel de Montaigne

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Susan Vass

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Oswald Chambers

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Hillary Clinton

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Toni Morrison

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

Shia LaBeouf