Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Lawrence Welk

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Marie Curie

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Charlie Chaplin

Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.

Lisa Ann Sandell

Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.

C.S. Lewis

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Walter Winchell

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Aretha Franklin

Me pregunto cómo sería el mundo si todos viviéramos realmente como si no hubiera mañana.

Judith Krantz

To give style to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.(translated 1951)

Emile Durkheim, Suicide, bk. 3,

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Keri Russell

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson