To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.