Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. —Kahlil Gibran

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. —Thomas Alva Edison

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. —Tom Clancy

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann

Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented! —Heinrich Heine

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. —E. L. Doctorow

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. —Victor Hugo

GONNA BE BUSY....

I'll be too busy to post for the next few days, so here's (almost) a week's worth. Make it last.... Don't make pigs of yourselves!

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people happy;they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor. —Martin Luther

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. —Fran Lebowitz

The grass is always greener...where you water it. —Author Unknown

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. —Jessamyn West

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. —Edith Wharton

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. —Irish Proverb

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important. —Arthur Bloch

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. —Havelock Ellis