You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

Orison Swett Marden

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hebzucht heeft geen kleur.

Deon Meyer

Success is not to discover what others like, it is to acquire and practise the skills that help one gain their love.

Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Constantin Brancusi

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

Bill Sienkiewicz

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

Gordon Strachan

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

David Friedman

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Kurt Russell

His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.

Charlotte Featherstone