Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the universe!

Blaise Pascal

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Albert Einstein

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S. Truman

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Marcus Antonius

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

J.E Buckrose

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding

Samuel Johnson

this is a book about something

C.S. Lewis

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for -- worth dying for.

Margaret Mitchell

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

Julie Andrews