What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

Source Unknown

When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

Source Unknown

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Carl Sagan

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Carl T. Rowan

From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

Allen West

Substitute 'd--n' 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

And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

Kate Upton

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Bertrand Russell

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Stanislaw Lec

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

Mary Gordon