Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

C.S. Lewis

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Tertullian

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.

Paulo Coelho

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

Andy Goldsworthy

No one wants advice -- only corroboration.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Ou

The strongest have their moments of fatigue

Friedrich Nietzsche

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

John Stuart Mill

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.

George Eliot

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Steve Martin

Great fear is concealed under daring.

F. L. Lucan

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

Andrew Cuomo

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

T. E. Lawrence