I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Dickens

Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.

Orson Scott Card

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari

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

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Ray Bradbury

A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends

Friedrich Nietzsche

The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

Josh Gates

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Edward Burnett Tylor