Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Jean Paul

Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion.

Greg Werner

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

Gary Bauer

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

Susan Orlean

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Stephen Jay Gould

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendshipnever.

Albert Camus

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Robert Southey

I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

Rob Sheffield