You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.

Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's quarterly in the autumn of 1981. The essay opened with a kind of encouragement: 'There used to be a story that discerning Frenchmen preferred to read Marcel Proust in English on the grounds that the prose of was deeply un-French and heavily influenced by English writers such as Ruskin.' I cling to this even though Kilmartin thought it to be ridiculous Parisian snobbery; I shall never be able to read Proust in French, and one's opportunities for outfacing Gallic self-regard are relatively scarce.

Christopher Hitchens

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

A. Whitney Brown

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Suze Orman

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

William Shakespeare

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

Bryant Gumbel

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Frank Crane

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Bridget Moynahan

Queer little twists go into the making of an individual. To supress them all and follow clock and calendar and creed until the individual is lost in the neutral grey of the host is to be less than true to our inheritance.... Life, that gorgeous quality of life, is not accomplished by following another man's rules. It is true we have the same hungers and same thirsts, but they are for different things and in different ways and in different seasons.... Lay down your own day, follow it to its noon, your own noon, or you will sit in an outer hall listening to the chimes but never reaching high enough to strike your own.

Angelo Patri

Life's too short for chess.

Henry J. Byron

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

Thomas Carlyle