Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.

John Dryden

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

Paul Gauguin

The great deep thrills for through it everywhere The breath of beauty blows.

George William Russell

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Jim Rohn

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Mengtse)

Fish and guests smell at three days old.

Danish proverb

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Khalil Gibran

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Robert Henri

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

James L. Buckley

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

W. H. Auden

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

T.H. White