Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

And let there be light,Let there be light where it has long gone overdue.Let there be light in the coldest of places,Let there be light in the darkest of secrets,Let there be light in your hope.Let there be light in your heart,for light is but the only thing for me to give you.Let there be light...

Rosen Topuzov

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

Warren Farrell

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

Frederick the Great

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Claude LeviStrauss

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

L. Ron Hubbard

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Alan Alda

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

Anthony de Mello

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C.S. Lewis

Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

Ambrose Bierce

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.

Traci LaRussa

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Christopher Lasch