Dag Hammarskjöld: Life yields...

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
/Dag Hammarskjöld/

Bill Watterson: A box...

A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
/Bill Watterson/

Donna Karan: Everything in...

Everything in life... has to have balance.
/Donna Karan/

Kurt Vonnegut: Life happens...

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
/Kurt Vonnegut/

Mary McCarthy: ...friendship...is essential...

...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
/Mary McCarthy/

Honore de Balzac: The man...

The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother's heart, licking it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to every heart! --this is the task of execution. The hand must be ready at every moment to work in obedience to the mind.
/Honore de Balzac/

Joshua Wolf Shenk: A glimpse...

A glimpse of any one moment in a life can be deeply misleading. A man at 20 who appears the model of altruism may turn out to be a kind of emotional prodigy-or he may be ducking the kind of engagement with reality that his peers are both moving toward and defending against. And, on the other extreme, a man at 20 who appears impossibly wounded may turn out to be gestating toward maturity.
/Joshua Wolf Shenk/

Joseph Campbell: Your life...

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
/Joseph Campbell/

Charlie Chaplin: Life is...

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
/Charlie Chaplin/

Philip Adams: It seems...

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
/Philip Adams/

Andy Garcia: Everything I...

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
/Andy Garcia/

Dante Alighieri: In the...

In the middle of the journey of our life<br>where the straight road had been lost sight of.
/Dante Alighieri/

Henri Lefebvre: In this...

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
/Henri Lefebvre/

Boris Yeltsin: There are...

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
/Boris Yeltsin/

Winston Churchill: The greatest...

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
/Winston Churchill/