Quote of the Day

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Rumi

I've got a great sense of humor.

Anthony Hopkins

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

William Samuel Johnson

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

Sugar Ray Leonard

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Robert Morgan

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

Cassandra Clare

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Ivan Turgenev

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

John Guare

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

William Styron

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Martin Luther

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

John Updike