There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Anne Rice

What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

Matthew Arnold

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Orson Scott Card

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.

John Burroughs

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Walter Mosley

We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to see the world and construe it in the right way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists.

Sidney Jourard

I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

Sherri Shepherd

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Tyrone Power

Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

Richard Garnett

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

Ellen G. White

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Elizabeth Taylor

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Brad Henry