Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Stephen King

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Oscar Wilde

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Orison Swett Marden

We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.

Jack Schwartz

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

Karrie Webb

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

Morrie Schwartz

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may rain.

Leo Durocher

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

Rachel Stevens

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

Percy Wynham Lewis

Home is wherever I'm with you. Home is where I'm alone with you.

Alex Ebert