hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Ray Bradbury

I was so depressed that I decided to jump from the tenth floor. They sent up a priest. He said on your mark ......I was lost and asked a cop to help me find my parents do you think we'll find them, I don't know there's so many places to hideOn Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

Rodney Dangerfield

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Les Brown

That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe.

Stephen King

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs, and great designs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages; or that the general lot of mankind is misery, and the misfortunes of those whose eminence drew upon them an universal attention, have been more carefully recorded, because they were more generally observed, and have in reality only been more conspicuous than others, not more frequent, or more severe.

Samuel Johnson

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

John Gay

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Emily Carr

Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.

Stephen Richards

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Bernard Williams

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.Otani: What's that?Nakao: The whispering of your heart.

Heikichi Nakao Otani