I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Bill Vaughan

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

Maxwell Maltz

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Jos

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

Susan Orlean

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Michael Morpurgo

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Answering Nor

Whatever limits us we call fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Boris Yeltsin

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James M. Barrie

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

Alone, as before, in the universe Without hope and without love!..

Mikhail Lermontov

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

Andrew Solomon