You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.

Victor Hugo

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Horace

Saddest Poem

Pablo Neruda

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.

Cassandra Clare

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more you give, the more you get.

Anonymous

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Bob Goff

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Sitting Bull

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Seth Rogen

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game—age 37, aging alternative icon—I'd be taking out ads.

Henry Rollins