Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are.

Chris Lyons

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

Liev Schreiber

My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and - and in short you are for ever floored. As I am!

Charles Dickens, David Copperfie

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

William Shakespeare

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

Art Blakey

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Andrew Motion

All great achievements require time.

Dr. David Schwartz

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Ben Okri

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita

Thomas Jefferson

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

He said my dream doesn't mean I am crazy, only that I should probably love myself a little better, like most people.

Frank Lee