When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

James Russell Lowell

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Thomas Wolfe

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

Amber Tamblyn

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Dan Quayle

'Tis not to see the worldAs from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,And heart profoundly stirred;And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,The years that are not more.

Matthew Arnold, Growing Old

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Earl Nightingale

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Gustav Jung

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Oscar Wilde

It just seems awfully mean. But sometimes, the ends justify the mean.

Michael Scott

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Oscar Wilde