Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.

Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time.

Jake Vander Ark

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

Michel de Montaigne

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Carolina Herrera

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Imogen Cunningham

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.

William Shakespeare

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G. K. Chesterton

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Frederic William Maitland

I'm working myself to death.

Alan Ladd

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Diane Sawyer

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon