Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Emily Bronte

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

John Berger

Half my life is an act of revision.

John Irving

Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.

Oscar Wilde

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building.

Robert Collier

Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the magician with the fiddle-bow in his hand, who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him - why, certainly he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair - but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash also.

Mark Twain

Style is the image of character.

Edward Gibbon

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Gates McFadden

For whatever we lose (a you or a me)It's always ourselves we find in the sea.

E.E. Cummings

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

Catherine Deneuve

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Charlie Chaplin