I was so self-critical. I still am; but it's not as bad anymore.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Dr. Seuss

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

Rod Parsley

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical. All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

L. Ron Hubbard

A lunatic may be

Edgar Allan Poe, The System of D

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing. You don't necessarily sense the motion. I've found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once, and then again, and one more time, and there you are, feeling, for a moment, that it was sudden, your arrival at the bottom of the heap.

Jane Hamilton

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

David Friedman

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

Stephen Richards

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Holbrook Jackson

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

D. W. Brogan, on decline of US b

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Dag Hammarskjold