On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Susan Sontag

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

David Byrne

World history is a court of judgment.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Mighty in deeds and not in words.

Anon.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Alan Alda

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

James Russell Lowell

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Sri Ramakrishna

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Wallace Stevens

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Roald Dahl

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Frank Sinatra