The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Alexander McQueen

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Leon Kass

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

Michael Phelps

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Aristotle

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

C.S. Lewis

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

Source Unknown

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Frank Luntz

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

Tyrese Gibson

Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.

Ron Wyden

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Jeff Bridges