Stand like a beaten anvil.It is the part of a good athlete to be bruised and to prevail.

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.

LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily.

God uses us in spite of who we are, not because of it.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.