To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. (Truman Capote)
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. (Lord Chesterfield)
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. (Robert Albert Bloch)
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All people want is someone to listen. (Hugh Elliott)
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. (Arnold Bennett)
Life is an onion and one peels it crying. (French Proverb)
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Francis Bacon)
What's money A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. (Bob Dylan)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal. (Marvin E. Wolfgang)
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. (Samuel Johnson)
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. (Homer)
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. (Henry Drummond)
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish. (Virgil Thompson)
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. (Quintus Septimius Tertullianus)
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. (Henry Louis Mencken)
Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient. (Cicero)
From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life. (Arthur Ashe)
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. (Meg Cabot)