But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Thomas Mann

the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's.

Patrick Ness

Déj? vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

Paulo Coelho

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

Harry Connick, Jr.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Bobby Knight

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Frances E. Willard

Come to accept that if your methods don't change, neither will your results.

Steve Maraboli

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Lillian Hellman

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Alan Greenspan

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli