Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard

Benjamin Franklin

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.

Dave Brubeck

The world is governed by opinion.

William Ellery Channing

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Pablo Picasso

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Mark Twain

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Leonard Barnes

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

Thomas Edward Brown

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.

Wilbur Smith

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Trey Parker

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

George Washington

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

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