I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Horace Mann

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.

George Meredith

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas. . . a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

William S. Burroughs, Remark, 19

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anais Nin

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

Joseph Campbell

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark -- that is critical genius.

Billy Wilder

I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I'd love to be Brian McKnight.

Justin Guarini

All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.

Charles Dickens

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Samuel Butler

The hunt for young authors who, while maintaining a prestige value (with a r

Cyril Connolly, Blueprint for a

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Mark Twain