A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Francis Bacon

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

Mark Twain

I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.

Brian Michael Bendis

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Henry James

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Richard Branson

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

William Hague

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

Ernest Hemingway

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Marcus Aurelius

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Vera Farmiga

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

Andy Rooney