Alan Moore

"Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose."

Rita Mae Brown

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."

Diane Von Furstenberg

"Life is a risk."

Chilo

"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity."

William Arthur Ward

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

Joan Didion

"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs."

Tallulah Bankhead

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

Samuel Johnson

"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."

Catherine de Hueck Doherty

"Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you."

Toni Morrison

"She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

Lin Yutang

"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Eric Wald

"Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air."

Shakti Gawain

"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."

Saadi

"Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend."

Rebecca West

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

"May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility."

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."

Benjamin Franklin

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."

Salma Hayek

"Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process."

Real Live Preacher

"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you�re doing, or it comes out flat. You can�t fake your way through this."

Jimi Hendrix

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

May Sarton

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

Scott Westerfeld

"Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents."

Linda Berdoll

"It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist."

Edward L. Flom

"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others."

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!"

John Green

"The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real."

David Cronenberg

"The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution."

Lawana Blackwell

"For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children."

Anthony Starr

"Sport is imposing order on what was chaos."

Anna Sewell

"I am never afraid of what I know."

Elizabeth Aston

"Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason."

Barbara Schapiro

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

The Mishnah

"Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure."

Shirley Trusty Corey

"The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future."

Edmund Burke

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

William Jennings Bryan

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Jeph Jacques

"Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable."

Jane Goodall

"People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside."

John Quincy Adams

"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."

Sophocles

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

Bono

"There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious."

Martha Burgess

"Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's."

Charles Dickens

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

G. K. Chesterton

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

the Dhammapada

"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."

Dr. Thomas Dooley

"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end."

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

Oprah Winfrey

"Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine."

Alanis Morissette

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

Saint Francis de Sales

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."

Woody Allen

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

L. M. Montgomery

"Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it."

Eric Hoffer

"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Pythagoras

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."

Edmund Spenser

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please."

Norman Vincent Peale

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

Colette

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

J. K. Rowling

"Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it."

Henry L. Stimson

"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."

Henry Miller

"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!"

Saadi

"Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant."