The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back.

Source Unknown

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

Elizabeth Hurley

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Philip Larkin

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Dean Inge

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Italian Proverb

A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Charles Dickens

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Budd Schulberg

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

Ellen Barkin

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

In art the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Sri Chinmoy