Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

The more he cast away the more he had.

John Bunyan

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

Al Alvarez

Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.

Source Unknown

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Damon Albarn

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

Emmitt Smith

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

Preston Manning

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Michelangelo

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

William Makepeace Thackeray

...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...

Ann Patchett