proclaimed Donne, , and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies.

You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.

Evelyn Waugh

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Charles J. Givens

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

Joel Edgerton

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

Benicio Del Toro

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Victor Frankl

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

Khaled Hosseini

Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.

Source Unknown

If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to know him. This would seem to be obvious. Yet most of us spend a great part of our lives thinking up ways to avoid becoming known.Indeed, much of human life is best described as impersonation. We are role players, every one of us. We say that we feel things we do not feel. We say things we did not do. We say that we believe things we do not believe. We pretend that we are loving when we are full of hostility. We pretend that we are calm and indifferent when we are actually trembling with anxiety and fear.Of course we cannot tell even the people we know and love everything we think or feel. But our mistakes are nearly always in the other direction. Even in families -- good families -- people wear masks a great deal of the time.

Sidney Jourard, The Transparent

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.

Ralph L. Woods

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Solomon Burke

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Mignon McLaughlin