Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

G. W. Follin

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

Herschel Walker

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

Richard King

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Johann von Goethe

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, dont you?Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Cormac McCarthy

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

Jodi Picoult

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Soren Kierkegaard

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

Susan Rice

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

Khaled Hosseini