Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Anthony Burgess

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Jodi Picoult

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Christopher Lasch

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Maggie Kuhn

One year they asked me to be poster boy for birth control.

Rodney Dangerfield

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

Sonya Hartnett

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

Source Unknown

Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

Source Unknown

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Martha Beck

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Lawrence Durrell

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrother