An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda

Life without risk is life wasted.

Santosh Kalwar

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

Joseph Addison, "The Spectator",

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

Pete Hoekstra

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Ezra Pound

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Ambrose Bierce

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood.

Rudolfo Anaya

You've got to be in top physical condition. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

Wallace Shawn

As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.

Dr. Charles Stanley