I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Germaine De Stael

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

Alice Sebold

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Peter Davison

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

Aaliyah

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

E. M. Forster

Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

Alexander Pope

Music became a healer for me.

Eric Clapton

I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!

Alia Mamdouh

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

Amy Schumer

Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.

Patrick Dennis

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

Ernest Hemingway