It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Jeanne Moreau

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Jesse Jackson

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Anne Tyler

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

Sean Astin

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Edmund Burke

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

Leo Tolstoy

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.

William James

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

Wiz Khalifa

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Theodore Roosevelt

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

Peter Farrelly

Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.

Stephen Richards

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Harold Taylor