there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Barbara Sher

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

Raymond Chandler

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Lou Reed

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Heinrich Heine

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Charles Baudelaire

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Georges Bataille

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

Ray Romano

Behold the Child among his new-born blissesA six years' Darling of a pigmy size!See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,With light upon him from his father's eyes!See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,Some fragment from his dream of human life,Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.

William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimat

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

Paul Walker

I love the challenge.

Nancy Lopez

It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

Source Unknown