The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Victor Borge

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Charles Dickens

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Philip Crosby

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

Thomas S. Monson

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

Jeremy London

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Charles Caleb Colton

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

Oscar Niemeyer

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Brenda Ueland

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

David Korten

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Gustav Jung

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

Oscar Wilde

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Benjamin Franklin