It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Eli Cass

I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

Virginia Woolf

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

William Penn

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

William Scranton

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

Edward W. Howe

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Toni Morrison

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

Max Eastman

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Graham Greene

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Joe Garagiola

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Stephen Gardiner

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Mark Twain