Quote of the Day

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman Dyson

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Jerry Seinfeld

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

Kiera Cass

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

Penelope Cruz

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Og Mandino

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

Mark Twain

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Frederick William Faber

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Dorothea Brande

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Yogi Berra

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

Rick Renzi

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Oliver Herford

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Samuel Richardson

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Bruno Bettelheim