Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. – Benjamin Disraeli
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. – Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. – Benjamin Disraeli
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. – Benjamin Disraeli
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I dont mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. – Charles de Lint