If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

William James

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Mark Twain

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Barbara Feldon

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butler

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

E. K. Piper

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

Lewis Thomas

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

Source Unknown

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Yann Martel

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

W. Somerset Maugham

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

G. K. Chesterton

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day

George Bernard Shaw