I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

William Faulkner

The world does owe you a living, but it doesn't home deliver.

Saunders

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

Berkeley Breathed

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

Billie Jean King

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

David Grayson

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

Greta Garbo

I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

Jennifer Garner

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Oprah Winfrey

Absence - that common cure of love.

Lord Byron