"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
Edward Abbey
"The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler."
Franz Kafka
"Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under its benign influence all the stories and dramas which properly belong to the sphere of art are announced by me in conversation."
Peter Ackroyd
"Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!"
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
"But, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or even dead, from battle. There is no equality for us in this lifetime."
Allan Dare Pearce
"We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life."
Matt Chandler
"He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall not take it upon myself to disabuse them."
Gayle Forman
"Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards."
Adeline Yen Mah
"For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."
Anonymous
"When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for."
Coco Chanel
"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."
Andrew Cohen
"We all struggle. It's just that some of us struggle out loud and some of us don't."
Renae A. Sauter
"Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow."
Anonymous
"First things first, though, I thought, and headed straight for the liquor cabinet. Times like this call for straight scotch, no rocks."
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