Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair

Kahlil Gibran

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Mitch Albom

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Mark Twain

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

Tori Amos

I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.

Emile Zola

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Donna Tartt

When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Lucian Freud

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

Idris Elba

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Lao Tzu

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)