There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

You are a reflection of nature. You should always be upgrading, refining, and improving.

Steve Maraboli

Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them.(Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)

Sophie Kinsella

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Grant M. Bright

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

Kahlil Gibran

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

God's bodkin, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity -- the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty?

William Shakespeare

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Philip Dunne

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.

Abraham Lincoln

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Keith Haring

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

Neil Gaiman