Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Terry Pratchett

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Bruno Bettelheim

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Christopher Marlowe

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

Neil Gaiman

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Keanu Reeves

Bedauern ist die Trübung des Geistes und nicht seine Läuterung.

Kahlil Gibran

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hathsuch meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

William Shakespeare

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes.

Daniel R. Scroggin

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

Joe Montana