Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.

C. JoyBell C.

The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.

Cassandra Clare

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

Jonathan Swift

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about character issues. Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.

P. J. O'Rourke

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

John Dryden

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Ben Bradlee

The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and cant get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance.

Joan Fontaine

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana