A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Michel de Montaigne

Self-trust is the first secret of success

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

Jimmy Reed

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Jodi Picoult

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Holly Near

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Stan Brakhage

You cannot believe everything you hear

Jude Morgan

We are full of false approaches to so essential a part of our lives; work is often regarded as a means to produce money, and money in its turn a means to relieve us of the necessity to work.

Rúhíyyih Rabbani

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

Stephen Harper

It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

George S. Patton