Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila's horses' hooves have ever scoured.

Ernest Hemingway

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

Jimmy Carter Calls Condi Rice a Liar... Jimmy Carter continues to plumb new depths of disgraceful behavior: Carter says Secretary Rice 'not telling truth'.

Charles Foster Johnson

Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

Joan Jett

Take care that no one hates you justly.

Publilius Syrus

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Anthony Kiedis

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Ingrid Newkirk

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Albert Camus

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Ethel Barrymore

There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Morley