My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

Joel Osteen

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Carroll O'Connor

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Audre Lorde

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

Michael Chabon

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.

Richard Hovey

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Barbra Streisand

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolateThat can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,And mitigate the gloom of Age?Religion bids the tempest cease,And, leads her to a port of peace;And on, the lonely pilot steersThrough the lapse of future years.

Thomas Haynes Bayly, "New Monthl

Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living.

Thomas a Kempis