When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

Jess Rothenberg

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Nelson Mandela

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Paul Prudhomme

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?

William Shakespeare

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

Your attitude determines your altitude.

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Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

J.K. Rowling

The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.

Thomas Carlyle

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan