I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

William Osler

I'd like to say I'm R&ampB's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&ampB.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&ampB.'

Jamie Foxx

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Jeremy Taylor

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

Paulo Coelho

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Peace Pilgrim

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Gustav Jung

To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

John Donne

The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.

Steve Maraboli

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing, The Politics of Exp

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

Frank Tipler

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Dennis Prager

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

David Eddings