The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

G: Never fear. 10 yrs from now, when you're looking at this picture, I'm going to be looking at it with you.I love you,G.

Peter Golden

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Bertolt Brecht

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

Marilu Henner

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

Norman MacCaig

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Kahlil Gibran

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Diablo Cody

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh