There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Princess of Wales Diana

Offered a job as book critic for magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his opinion about William Wordsworth. Replying perhaps too quickly that Wordsworth had been a Romantic poet, he had been brusquely informed by Chambers that there was no place for him at the magazine. Bellow had often wondered, he told us, what he ought to have said. I suggested that he might have got the job if he'd replied that Wordsworth was a once-revolutionary poet who later became a conservative and was denounced by Browning and others as a turncoat. This seemed to Bellow to be probably right. More interesting was the related question: What if he'd that job?

Christopher Hitchens

Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter.

Steve Maraboli

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

Abu Bakar Bashir

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Theodore Parker

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Ernest Hemingway

Our true nationality is mankind.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

Jennifer Aniston

Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

Source Unknown

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Lionel Trilling

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Sydney J. Harris