It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

William Shakespeare

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Lev Grossman

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

Tim Tebow

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Source Unknown

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'the serpent saying to Eve

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Met

No matter how small you start, always dream big.

Stephen Richards

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you're dead and rotten, either do things worth the writing, or write things worth the reading!

Benjamin Franklin

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Mario Puzo

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

Xun Zi

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Victor Hugo