"In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'"

“Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.”

“This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Oct 20, 2014

“We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.”

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”

“The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

“He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.”

Source : Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.280, Penguin