There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

YouTube is very addictive. I refused to put it on my favorite places because it's too easy to go there.

Stephen King

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

Earl Scruggs

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Gavin Newsom

Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.

Phillip Sweet

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

Emmanuelle Beart

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

Florida Scott Maxwell

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.

Joshua Hartzell

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Heraclitus

Let us banish fear.

Carter G. Woodson

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

Tea Obreht

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Cri