It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

George Orwell, The Art of Donald

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Ludwig Borne

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

James Hetfield

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He Tom Brown never wants anything but whats right and fair; only when you come to settle whats right and fair, its everything he wants, and nothing that you want. And thats his idea of a compromise.

Thomas Hughes

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Norman Vincent Peale

One does not become a guru by accident.

James Fenton

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Octavia E. Butler