One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

You don't run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That's the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you're good enough.

Bill Persons

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Samuel Johnson

Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter.

Steve Maraboli

Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you.

C. JoyBell C.

We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Joel Madden

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Edgar Degas

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

John R. Stott

Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. I just haven't worked out the details yet.

Robin Brande

It always seems impossible until it is done.

Nelson Mandela