Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

I definitely had a top-notch education.

Paul Giamatti

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Barbara Cartland

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Joseph Joubert

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Doug Horton

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Elia Kazan

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

John Green

And know that I am with you always yes, to the end of time.

Jesus Christ

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

James Fallows

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety

Samuel Johnson

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

George Eliot

It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks.

Terry Pratchett

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Jason Statham