If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.

Blaise Pascal

The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Karl Lagerfeld

Your capacity to own something is your capacity to change something.

Steve Maraboli

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.

Edward Burns

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

Jane Austen

Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.

Gelett Burgess

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

George Konrad

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bertrand Russell

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

Aaron Carter

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

Brian Ferneyhough

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

Ambrose Bierce