The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Stephen King

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

Antonio Banderas

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?

Christopher Hitchens

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Vincent Van Gogh

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Jane Austen

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Virginia Woolf

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, it

JeanPaul Sartre, from the prefac

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Roy Lichtenstein

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hosea Ballou

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Napoleon Hill

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

Paulo Coelho