It takes courage to be the author of your life. When you are struggling through one of the difficult parts of turning your dreams into reality, you may wonder why you always get stuck with having to put up with so much fear and uncertainty. Why, you wonder, couldn't I feel more courageous, like those other people do? You don't feel courageous because courage is not an emotion. There is no such thing as feeling courageous. It is an imaginary emotion. Courage consists of doing what you said you would do even when you don't want to. In the face of danger you have a choice to be the delegate of either your commitments or your feelings. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.

Reggie Leach

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas. . . a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

William S. Burroughs, Remark, 19

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

Christina Applegate

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Benjamin Franklin

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

Dane Cook

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.

Edward Simmons

Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,because the mass man will mock it right away.I praise what is truly alive,what longs to be burned to death.In the calm water of the love-nights,where you were begotten, where you have begotten,a strange feeling comes over you,when you see the silent candle burning.Now you are no longer caughtin the obsession with darkness,and a desire for higher love-makingsweeps you upward.Distance does not make you falter.Now, arriving in magic, flying,and finally, insane for the light,you are the butterfly and you are gone.And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow,you are only a troubled gueston the dark earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

Source Unknown

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

J.K. Rowling

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Anthony Anderson

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.

John Donne