Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Theodore Sturgeon
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain
I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.
Sarah McLachlan
You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
Viggo Mortensen
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Morihei Ueshiba
Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.
Sara Henderson
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Henri Frederic Amiel