To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Mary Stewart

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't to say are even more important than the things they do.

Jodi Picoult

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

Kevin Smith

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Ralph Nader

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned. The first thought is this: fear. I cannot write because I am afraid. Of what?

Howard Nemerov, Journal of the F

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Erich Fromm

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

Abraham Lincoln

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Stephen Levine

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

Erica Jong

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Thomas Carlyle

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.

Richard Milhous Nixon