The hunt for young authors who, while maintaining a prestige value (with a r

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Albert Camus

Your divine sagacity is your life's status symbol.

Ogwo David Emenike

You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God

Eberhard Arnold, The Hope of Adv

There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Howard Aiken

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Mark Twain

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

O Children of Men! Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory.

Baha'u'llah

The sole equality on earth is death.

Philip James Bailey

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is a risk.

Carmelo Anthony

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

Diane Wakoski

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon