If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.

C.S. Lewis

A radiant glow enveloped Alaura. Soft eruptions of various shades of effervescent green danced in the air and frolicked in the locks of her dark blonde hair. Whispers of yellows and blues revealed themselves near the skin, kissing the air with each leap.

Diane Lynn McGyver

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

Bernhard Goetz

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Edward Steichen

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. In America men often work long hours even when they are well off; such men, naturally, are indignant at the idea of leisure for wage-earners, except as the grim punishment of unemployment; in fact, they dislike leisure even for their sons.

Bertrand Russell

What the world neglects, the Lord accepts.

Deborah Brodie

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Kevyn Aucoin

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Oscar Wilde

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Billie Holiday

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Lester Bangs

The beautiful eyes of my cash-box.

Moliere