Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Irving Babbitt

It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.

Scott O'Grady

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Zane Grey

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Miguel de Cervantes

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Sun Tzu

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

Sean Parker

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

Gary Malone

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.

Blaise Cendrars Sauser