black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I just want to be the best. I haven’t been in an all-out war. That doesn’t mean I’m not the best.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that’s what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.
BOOTSY COLLINS

Brother Guitar Player
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action Assurance Exam
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. ELIOT

Humanity Reality
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Library Men Reading
It’s a cliche, but you will always be your most fierce competitor.
ROHIT SHARMA

Competition Inspirational Strong Yourself
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Best Insurance Writing
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
BRENDA UELAND

Love You Teacher Thinking
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Except Indifference Love People Relationship Strange
I like charcoal drawing a lot. I’m not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I’m on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I’m in and turn it into an art studio.
BEN SCHNETZER

Ambition Art Drawing
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOF

Above Music Still
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
As long as you’re being honest and there’s the intention in what you’re doing, then I think that energy permeates your field and becomes like a homing signal for other people with like energies.
SZA

Honesty Spiritual Yourself
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

Book Men Reading
You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that’s why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn’t even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
BARRY SANDERS

Enough Good Looks Thinking
Often with film, I find that you’re just really getting to know a person. They’re just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.
RACHEL MCADAMS

Film Persons Starting
Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINO

Act Actor Do Great See Somebody Tradition
How many wounds can you convert to wisdom? How much pain to power can you permute and fathom? This is your story; rewrite how it’s written.
ALETHEIA LIOLA

Fathom Inspirational Pain Story Wisdom Wound
The world is nothing but a big gimmick.
JIMI HENDRIX

Big Perspective World
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Audacity Call Grandeur Hour Moral Spiritual
He hadn’t loved me well in the end, but he’d loved me well when it mattered.
CHERYL STRAYED

End Matter Well
The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.
EDITH STEIN

Empowerment Existence Inspirational Need Woman World
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
PARACELSUS

Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
I never had any alcohol on the golf course that I remember, except for one time, and that was the L.A. Open.
JOHN DALY

Alcohol Course Except Had never Open Remember Time
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Book Education Exercise Inspirational Read
I was also very concerned about protecting my family.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Family Humorous Stupid
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
ROLLO MAY

Beauty Experience Give Joy Peace Sense Simultaneously