My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

William Shakespeare

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

James Ellroy

Miracles don't just happen on their own you know, you got to make them happen.

Joem S. Aguilar

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

John Sloan

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

Meat Loaf

I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Cristiano Ronaldo

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

Rebecca West

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

David Foster Wallace

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

George Washington Carver

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

Anon.

A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

John Dewey, Democracy and Educat

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter S. Thompson