If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.

Giovanni Niccolini

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

Ice Cube

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Chuck Palahniuk

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

David Thomas

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

Danica McKellar

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Joyce Carol Oates

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red,

We tell you, tapping on our brows,The story as it should be,As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

Edwin Robinson

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

Amin Maalouf

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Gene Fowler