Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Aldous Huxley

Nature admits no lie.

Thomas Carlyle

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Vincent Van Gogh

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Jean Rhys

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

Mark Twain

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens.

John Corwin

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.

Steve Maraboli

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Don Roff

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Philip Emeagwali