It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Susan Sontag

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Jacques Derrida

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

John Green

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

Ruben Studdard

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Robert Ballard

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

William Blake

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Thor Heyerdahl

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

E. O. Wilson

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Samuel Johnson

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Will Rogers