Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Willem de Kooning

'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'

Charles Dickens

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Franklin Field

No one will do it for you.

Ben Stein

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Barbara de Angelis

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Gale Sayers

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

William C. Bryant

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Stephen Sondheim

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

Jonathan Frid

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Denis Waitley