The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Robert Musil

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

John Johnson

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Roger Moore

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says,

Bill Cosby

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Source Unknown

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

John Buchan

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

Jane Austen

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Marilyn Hacker

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Byron White