"Life is too short for a long story." -Mary Wortley Montagu
"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung." -William Morris
"Its the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter." -Marlene Dietrich
"Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas." -Eric Bentley
"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply." -Josh Billings
"All things are in common among friends." -Laertius Diogenes
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results." -Napoleon Hill
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." -Abraham Lincoln
"Paint the essential character of things." -Camille Pissarro
"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity." -Cesare Lombroso