Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

Dave Grohl

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.

Ellen G. White

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Geoffrey Gaberino

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Robert Burns

A moment later I heard my sweetheart running up the stairs. My heart expanded with such force that it almost blotted me out. I hitched up the pants of my pajamas, flung the door open: and simultaneously Lolita arrived, in her Sunday frock, stamping, panting, and the she was in my arms, her innocent mouth melting under the ferocious pressure of dark male jaws, my palpitating darling!

Vladimir Nabokov

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge

Steve Maraboli

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

John Hurt

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke