Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

Fred Allen

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

Cassandra Clare

If you give them enough of yourself, they might realize that you're bleeding out from the pieces of you you keep giving them, and maybe give you something back. But then they don't. So you sit there. Less than you were.

Danielle Jordan

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is a risk.

Carmelo Anthony

Witnesses in my dream can place me in my bed, asleep, at the time of the murder.

Jarod Kintz

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

Derek Walcott

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Eric Hoffer

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Lillian Hellman

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

John Wooden

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

George Santayana

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.

Stacy Verdick Case