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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

—Alan Alda

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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

—T. S. Eliot

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Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

—Woodrow Wilson

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If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

—John Green

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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything--the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

—Bill Murray

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get

—Ray Kroc

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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

—Joseph Addison

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In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

—Max De Pree

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Christians believe if you love God you go to heaven. If you don't go to heaven, you go to hell. So, if you don't love God, you go to hell. God created everything, including heaven and hell. So he created a torture chamber, in case you don't love him back.

Crazy.

—Oliver Markus Malloy in Inside The Mind of an Introvert

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Anyone who hates gay people spends way too much time imagining what gay people do in their bedroom. Mind your own fucking business you weirdos.

—Oliver Markus Malloy in Inside The Mind of an Introvert

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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

—Adyashanti

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The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.

—Doris Grumbach in Fifty Days of Solitude

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I was afraid no one would laugh, and I wanted to pretend I wasn't noticing the audience. I didn't want the audience to get the idea I was telling a joke and waiting for a laugh.

—Mort Saul

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The traveler, alas, is at the mercy of his aesthetic sensations. A fine evening, a seat under a plant tree, the smile of a peasant girl, the scent of orange flower, a view over mountains or river—and he feels at home. His country is not the land where his friends live, but the wider territory of beautiful things—the territory where, if one agrees with Stendhal, he collects those promissory notes of happiness which give a precious fraction of their value when they are pocketed. He is therefore continually subject to accidents. An ugly town, a rainy day, and unsympathetic hotel, and he is at once a double exile—equally far from his native land and from that ideal country which he has set out to visit. The only recourse left is a bottle of wine.

—Gerald Brenan in Face of Spain

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