It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Lec

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have 'come down in the world' are to be pitied above all others.The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start,and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.

George Orwell

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

Horace

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

Les Brown

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us

Albert Einstein

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

Irvin S. Cobb

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

Martin Lawrence

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.

Proverb

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

Stanley Clarke

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

Billy Graham

Nature has always had more force than education.

Voltaire