I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Marquis de Sade

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Mae West

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Sir Walter Besant

I just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love, goodbye.

Jonathan Larson

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

Richard Dawkins

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

B. B. King

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

William Faulkner

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow

Samuel Johnson

The destiny of man is in his own soul

Herodotus

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

Paz de la Huerta

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein, Lazarus Long