It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?

Madame Dorothe Deluzy

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths:

Will Durant

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Christopher Darden

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Don Henley

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

Kevin Costner

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Edna O'Brien

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

Loren Eiseley

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James G. Frazer

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

John Ruskin