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One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. Nikki Giovanni

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Green Ingersoll

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative...

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy. Spike Milligan

"If we allow our ‘high creativity’ to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in line at the super market. Or we can be lost in awe at all the people around us, their lives full of glory and tragedy, and suddenly we will have...

Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. Thomas Berger

To fly we have to have resistance. Maya Lin

Big Book, big bore. Callimachus

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry David Thoreau

Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, colour, social status or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill

“Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.” Rainer Maria Rilke

Critics can’t even make music by rubbing their hind legs together. Mel Brooks

“One of the great gifts of growing older is to discover the exquisite art of being alone. What used to be an uncomfortable silence, is now a luxury. The house is peaceful, and I can dance in the kitchen without being judged or just doing nothing...