She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

Ernest Hemingway

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

Abraham Lincoln

Misfortune does not always result in harm.

Italian Proverb

Don't come into the music industry. It's almost inevitable that you'll psychologically be quite screwed up. Fame isn't a natural, human, behavioural thing. You get alienated. You're not really surrounded by truth.

Katie Melua

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Lord Chesterfield, "Letter to hi

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

Michael Duncan

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

Horace

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

David Bailey

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

Ryan Reynolds

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jesse Jackson

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers