Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Charles Dickens

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Mark Hopkins

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Robert Frost

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

Charles Baudelaire

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Tim Cahill

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

John Donne

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Herb Alpert

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

Miranda Lambert

You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.

Nigel Rees

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want to shine bright, look to the heavens and see how the brightest star always stands apart from those lesser shining stars.

Stephen Richards