Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Samuel Johnson

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Bob Marley

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Christopher Hitchens

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Ilka Chase

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

Jessie Tarbox Beals

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural

George Bernard Shaw

Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.

Peter Scotese

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

Cassandra Clare

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Les Brown

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

Grover Norquist

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

Monique Lhuillier