The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.

Ambrose Bierce

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

Carl Van Doren

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Elon Musk

Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.

Charles Dickens

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

Jodi Picoult

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

Harvey Weinstein

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Bertrand Russell

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

Mary Ellen Mark

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.

Raymond Carver

Stop living the life others want you to live...They have their own life anyway.

Lolalola

The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. When we describe the moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

Helen Nielsen