You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

An Wang

My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.

William Shakespeare

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

John Updike

Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.

Whitney Scott

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

Bertrand Russell

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.

Jodi Picoult

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.

Al Pacino

Believe and achieve with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards