Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly.

Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills and even a pet dog

This is the true story of my life, as told by a complete liar (me). While that sounds like an honest statement, it’s also a lie. I just can’t help myself. Unless I’m helping myself to seconds at dinner. You see, I can’t possibly be a complete liar, because I’m a rather incomplete person. I...

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany – just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

Matthews’ shout of treason in the House was no random outburst of lunacy, but the last act in an astonishing adventure: one that might indeed have changed the history of Europe. But by this point there was no-one left to confirm the truth of the story. Most of the witnesses were dead, and those who...

if you want it really, you get it !!!

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Read no history–nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good at storytelling. I hope that you enjoy my stories as I recall them.

Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, ‘to kill is the final possession’. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.

it’s not about what to think,it’s about how to think.

Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen it as an aristocratic fad: Mesmer (by this stage long gone to Germany and Switzerland) had made a fortune from the nobility, charged the huge fee of 100 livres for admission to his Society of Universal Harmony, and even been...

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

Give me a fucking pre-med you fuckers, I’m a personal friend of Sir Lancelot Spratt.

I’m self-taught. I didn’t just become a man, it was a decision.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

The Doctrine is the Ecstasy

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other’s side, and thus perform a kind of epistolary abortion.

You can’t hang out with negative people and live a positive life. Run from them!

I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story.

The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.

Just because you can, doesn’t necessarily mean that you should!

Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received … jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese

You have a life; make a success of it.

You’ve got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You’ve got to become them.”(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal public asylum in London, it had accepted dangerous and insane paupers as ‘objects of charity’ for centuries, and was proud of the claim that it had never turned anyone away.

Perhaps once in a lifetime we meet someone who has the ability to inspire us in one brief meeting, who can confront not one but two life-threatening illnesses with remarkable courage – and instil hope in others in the face of the greatest adversity.Jennifer Roberts had all of those qualities – and so many more.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

I’d rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I’d better tell my story before other people told it for me.

We are now edging across the boundary – always a porous one – between self-justification and fantasy. Matthews’ story is by no means a complete fantasy: we can recognise every event. But the frame of reference is somehow shrinking, and momentous world events being rewritten around the actions of a minor player.

What character with any sense of aesthetics desires a cradle-to-grave account of himself? That’s so passé, so nineteenth-century.

Amar es ponerse al cuello el nudo corredizo de la ilusión; adorar a alguien mientras pareces asfixiarte. Pero incluso el amor no correspondido, el amor fugaz, es mejor que nada.

Once undressed I felt less exposed. (…) Naked was my uniform. (…) There was no pressure to conform.

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

At the Beginning there was Incomplete information,then belief and then an abstract idea but if you reach Pure reasoning then you start to understand the dualities of life itself.The sunset,the sunrise;A star from approximately 93 million miles away and still as bright as it is in the sky some where unknown.

But artists didn’t need to achieve “firsts”, and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.

What drove us crazy wasn’t necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk.

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What “grace” might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way?

I don’t know enough to have any regrets

WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES!

If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud’s interest in his own work had survived the realization that the world would not be changed by verbal innovation. It did not survive the failure of all his adult relationships. He had always treated poems as a form of...