It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Albert Pike

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

Lillie Langtry

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

Garrett Hedlund

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Niels Bohr

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

Lance Bass

If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it.

Chinese Proverb

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you're grateful.

Paul Theroux

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

Aneurin Bevan

adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Ambrose Bierce

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara