Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

Saint Francis de Sales

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Candice Bergen

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

Luigi Barzini

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Jos

I never thought I should live to grow blasé about the sound of gunfire, but so I have

George Orwell

Those who are lighthearted remind me of death.

Leo Tolstoy

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

Christopher Hitchens

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

Jeff Goodell

The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.

Harry Golden, The Right Time: Th

Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.

John P. Mascotte