It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Amy Tan

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Gary Zukav

The resolved mind hath no cares.

George Herbert

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

W. H. Auden

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Alfred Adler

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

J. Donald Walters

Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

E. W. Howe

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Zig Ziglar

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

David Hockney