The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Lawrence Durrell

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Napoleon Hill

Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

Orison Swett Marden

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Robert Lindner

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Neil Young

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Arthur Schopenhauer

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

Lucy Stone

Heaven unites again the links that Earth has broken! For on Earth so much is needed, but in Heaven Love is all!

Adelaide Anne Procter

If you read the letter, you will find there is nothing wrong with it.

Ronald Reagan

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Samuel Johnson

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

Mario Testino

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

Michel Gondry