O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

From caring comes courage.

Lao Tzu

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Janis Ian

...The city fireman-the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square, The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line,the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets-the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders, and their execution,The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors, if the fire smoulders under them,The crowd with their lit faces, watching-the glare and dense shadows;....

Walt Whitman, The Song of the Br

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

William Godwin

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Michael Korda

You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, No Shit! or at least, No kidding!

Gael Boardman

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

Alicia Witt

The more you reason the less you create.

Raymond Chandler

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

Margaret Atwood

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

General Robert E. Lee