Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Mason Cooley

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

Ansel Adams

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Gustave Flaubert

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Edward Abbey

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'

Nicole Scherzinger

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Elbert Hubbard

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

Jodi Picoult

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

Andrew Weil