Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Edmond de Goncourt

Ransom perceived that he had never before seen anything but half-hearted and uneasy attempts at evil. This creature was whole-hearted. The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence.

C.S. Lewis

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Kurt Vonnegut

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Michael Holmboe Meyer

Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.

Richard Rhodes

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

Ambrose Bierce

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

Rita Coolidge

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Martha Graham