“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.”
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Imagination
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Well-being
"We loved a love that was more than love."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Love
"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Adversity
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Love
"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"
- President Boyd K. Packer
Ambition
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition