It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Socrates

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Barry Mann

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

George Eliot

When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it.

Steve Maraboli

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness

Bertrand Russell

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ambrose Bierce

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge, or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

Audrey Hepburn

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Grace Speare

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

Oprah Winfrey

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Jonathan Miller