You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

Life is a hot day, perhaps death is a cool night. Life is a shallow bay, perhaps death is a clear, deep sea.

Mika Waltari

Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.

Jimmy Calano

untuk hidup sendirian, orang harus menjadi binatang atau dewa--kata Aristoteles. ada yang ketiga: orang harus menjadi keduanya, yaitu seorang filsuf

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

Liev Schreiber

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15)

Sarah Breathnach

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

William Shakespeare

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Sallust

That's right. Act like rejected . It's not like you tried to kill me or anything.

Cassandra Clare