A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

When a lion kills a deer it does not build negative KARMA, its meant that way!!!!

Sometimes you have to be alone to truly know your worth.

She walked forward, feeling the dew on the grass with each step. She tightened her eyes, welcoming the darkness.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

I am a product [...of] endless books.

I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

A person is what is his life; if that person doesn't modify nothing inside himself, if he doesn't transform radically his life, if he doesn't work upon himself, then he is wasting miserably his time.