At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Margaret Fuller

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Camille Anna Paglia

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Georges Simenon

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

Richard MacDonald

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fa

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

In depression...faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come, not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

William Styron, from 'Darkness V

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

Chris Colfer

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Alfred North Whitehead

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.

Willard C. Butcher

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Leonard Cohen