There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Bonnie Raitt

measureless our pure living complete love whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow

E.E. Cummings

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Jeff Daly

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

Ogden Nash

Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, Humour studies would that be, sir?

Keith Waterhouse

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

John Barton

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Cesare Pavese

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life.

Paulo Coelho

I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.

John Patrick Shanley

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Blaise Pascal

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds.

Steve Maraboli

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead