It isn't easy, it does take an incredible amount of discipline, you don't just write just when you feel like it or you're not going to build up much of a body of work. Inspiration comes to you while you're writing rather than before....For me the discipline of writing and the discipline of prayer are identical, in that I have to let myself be got out of the way because that's not a do-it-yourself activity, and listen....When you write, don't think, write. You think before, you think after, you don't think during. When I'm praying, when I'm truly praying, I'm not thinking, I'm not speaking, I'm shutting up, so perhaps if God has something to say I can hear it. So writing too is an act of listening, listening to what has to be said.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

John Ruskin

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Pierre de Coubertin

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Christina Ricci

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Francis Bacon

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Jack Nicklaus

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary expressed deeper hatred than the word INTERFERENCE. But Christianity placed at the centre what then seemed to me a transcendental Interferer. If its picture were true then no sort of 'treaty with reality' could ever be possible. There was no region even in the innermost depth of one's soul (nay, there least of all) which one could surround with a barbed wire fence and guard with a notice No Admittance. And that was what I wanted; some area, however small, of which I could say to all other beings, 'This is my business and mine only.

C.S. Lewis

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

Dido Armstrong

How now, wit! Whither wander you?

William Shakespeare

Speech is the mirror of action.

Solon

Paties?ba ir darbs, meli ir slinkums. Paties?ba ir mekl?šana, ir c?n?šan?s, sevis izt?r?šana, non?kšana konfliktos un to risin?šana ar sav?m sirds asin?m. Meli ir gr?t?bu aizsegšana, izlikšan?s, zin?šanas izt?lošana tur, kur neko nezina, lai tikai nevajadz?tu mekl?t. Meli ir par k?triem mesties konfliktos un tos atrisin?t; tie izliekas, it k? konfliktu neb?tu bijis.

Rainis

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Charles Swindoll

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon