Applause waits on success.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Walter Scott

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Charles Lamb

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb

Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains and synapses are being rebuilt and rewired with maddening disregard for our personalities, so that each year, each month, each day, we transfer into a different person, an utterly unfaithful iteration of our original selves, of the drooling kid in the sandbox. But not me. I am still a facsimile of my early childhood. I am still looking for a loving dad to lift me up and brush the sand off my ass and to hear English, calm and hurtless, fall off his lips.

Gary Shteyngart

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Ronald Reagan

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do

Thomas Jefferson

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Sir Winston Churchill

Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

An angry father is most cruel toward himself.

Publilius Syrus

Autumn is my favorite season.

Johnny Kelly

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Gordie Howe

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

Rainer Maria Rilke