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"If I were to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this� Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" Ann Landers
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" John Keats
"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say."
Oscar Wilde
"All great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein
"When people show you who they really are, believe them." Maya Angelou
"The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within." Steve Miller Band, "Jungle Love"
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." John F. Kennedy
"Do not look back. And do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now." Dag Hammarskjold
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Dying seems less sad than having lived too little." Gloria Steinem
"I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers." Annie Dillard
"No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures." Samuel Johnson
"Life has only as many stresses as you put upon it" I Ching
"Dreams are real while they are happening. Can we say anymore about life?" Havelock Ellis
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Socrates
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." Helen Keller
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Carl Sandburg.
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world." Grace Paley
"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." Michael Jordan
"Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals." Don DeLillo
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning." Maya Angelou
"Never look back. That way you fall down the stairs." Rudolf Nureyev
"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time." Kurt Vonnegut
"Only God gets it right the first time." Stephen King
"Writing is communication, not self-expression; nobody in this world wants to read your diary, except your mother." Richard Peck
"Publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." Don Marquis
"Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like." Anton Checkhov
"I'd like to be anything but an actor. It's such a foolish life." Humphrey Bogart
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Woody Allen
"Our life is what our thoughts make it." Marcus Aurelius
"I am going to write because I cannot help it." Charlotte Bronte
"Time is always short, from birth to death. Why? Because we don't now how to stop." Julian Green