Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tryon Edwards

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

Ashurnasirpal

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

Jan de Bont

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

Allen Klein

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Leonard Cohen

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Mark Twain

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time

Leonard Bernstein

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Salma Hayek