I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

Eric Hoffer

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Janine Turner

A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Samuel Johnson

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Norman Mailer

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Charles Montesquieu

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

Robyn Davidson

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Hubert Humphrey

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

Max Lucado

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

Al Unser