My mom died when I was 8.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

Eric Hoffer

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Wallace Stegner

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Lena Horne

Society friendship and love Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove How soon I would taste you again!

William Cowper

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

Johnny Vegas

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

Margaret Mead

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

Samuel Johnson

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Horace

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

Christie Hefner

Just an observation: it is impossible to be both grateful and depressed. Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

Steve Maraboli

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

Joe Wright