A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

George Sheehan

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

G. Stanley Hall

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Oprah Winfrey

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

Joe E. Lewis

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

John Knowles

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..

Stephen King

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Ronald Reagan

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Lucille Clifton

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Joseph Addison

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

Sebastian Vettel

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Charles Baudelaire