Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

Demi Moore

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

William Trogdon

My mom obviously had a problem.

Dave Pelzer

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Herb Ritts

No man, proclaimed Donne , is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island ) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes-forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

Neil Gaiman

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Leo Tolstoy

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

James Truslow Adams

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

Frank Shorter

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

Tana French

Failure is a detour on the way to using Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Friedrich Nietzsche