The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Quentin Crisp

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

Tiffani Amber Thiessen

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

Hugh Mackay

A book that I would recommend for everyone: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Skloot

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.

Geis, R.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Theodor Adorno

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

Cliff Shaw

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

Benjamin Franklin

...kapag binisita ka ng idea, gana o inspirasyon, kailangan mong itigil LAHAT ng ginagawa mo para lang di masayang ang pagkakataon. Walang sandali lang o teka muna. Dahil pag lumagpas ang maikling panahong yon, kahit mag-umpog ka ng ulo sa pader mahihirapan ka nang maghabol.

Bob Ong

'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

Katey Sagal