It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

Jean de la Bruyere

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

Patricia Neal

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs. Whatsit's love, and her father's, and mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's love, and the twins', and Aunt Beast's. And she had her love for them. But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?

Madeleine L'Engle

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Billy Joel

They succeed, because they think they can.

Virgil

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies

Mark Twain

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

Andrew Cuomo

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Elijah Wood

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Arthur Golden

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

Peter Bichsel