When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

Cher

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Thomas Troward

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Truth is not a prerequisite for belief, whilst belief is often times a catalyst for searching for one's own truth.

S.R.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

Haile Gebrselassie

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

George Reisman

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Mary Wortley Montagu

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Henry David Thoreau

... and shame is a poor counterfeit of humility. Shame is the fruit of humiliation that works against the truth. p.52

Bill Johnson

In the old dramas it was love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called the Bitch Goddess, Success. Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars.

Aldous Huxley