Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!