As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Billy Dee Williams

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

Gus Van Sant

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Thomas Carlyle

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

Darren L Johnson

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

Mahatma Gandhi

I never mind about the little things when I am focused on the better things

Julie Hardesty

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

Christy Turlington

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

William Scott

Pale were your looks; and the rose in your tressesPaler of hue than the dreams we have lost;Who, then I said, is it sees or who guesses,Here in the hall, that I dance with a ghost?Gone! And the dance and the music are ended.Gone! And the rapture dies out of the skies.And, on my arm, in her elegance splendid,The woman of fashion smiles up in my eyes.Had I forgotten? and did you remember?You, who are dead, whom I cannot forget;You, for whose sake all my heart is an emberCovered with ashes of dreams and regret.

Madison Cawein, from Ghosts

As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed in order to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.

Kurt Vonnegut