All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

John H. Johnson

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

Bobby Flay

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is well to love even a dog when you have the opportunity, for fear you should find nothing else worth loving

Louise Honorine de Choiseul

The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

Adrienne Rich

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

Hal Sparks

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

Oscar Wilde

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Samuel Butler

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Mahatma Gandhi