We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).

Walt Whitman

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.

Kurt Vonnegut

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

Fareed Zakaria

Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Arabic Proverb

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

Paulo Coelho

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

Laura Hillenbrand

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

Anthony Burgess

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Norman Vincent Peale

How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.

George Bernard Shaw

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

Thomas Troward

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

Olen Steinhauer