Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

Beth Ditto

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Andre Maurois

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

William Shakespeare

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Erich Fromm

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Samuel Johnson

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Drake

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Roger Kahn

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

John Keats

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. He told me to wear a brown necktie.

Rodney Dangerfield

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Bob Kane