Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

Neil Gaiman

Everything dies eventually. We all know that. People, cities, whole civilizations. Nothing lasts. So if existence was just binary, dead or alive, here or not here, what would be the fucking point in anything? My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.

Isaac Marion

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

Ayrton Senna

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Mark Twain

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

Samuel Johnson

Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.

Oliver Cromwell

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Joseph Heller

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

Helen Fielding

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Mary Caroline Richards

how can you love a little catso muchin such ashortshorttime?

Sharon Creech

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd