Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Delta Goodrem

If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance

Mark Twain

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Alexander Maclaren

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Joyce Cary

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Thomas Hobbes

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Anais Nin

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

Virginia Woolf

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

Mitch Landrieu

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Joe Adcock

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward George BulwerLytton