The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Ezra Pound

I don't want you to be the victim of circumstance, I want you to be the owner of the moment.

Steve Maraboli

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

William Penn

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

Ryunosuke Satoro

Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

L'Wren Scott

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Willem de Kooning