Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Penelope Fitzgerald

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. Matthew 26:41

Bible

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

Adam Carolla

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Sophocles

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Martina Navratilova

The sting of her abandonment had not lessened through the years, and I suspected it would never go away. Occasionally, I could see agony in her eyes, the shadows that flickered in the background. If I could, I'd take her pain and make it my own. I'd swallow it like a bitter pill and live with the consequences.

T.J. Forrester

Love Sonnet XI

Pablo Neruda

Now if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it.

William Shakespeare

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

Nassau William Senior

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

Sergei Bubka

God's desire is that we excel.

Joel Osteen

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Ivo Andric