It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Gore Vidal

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700231.txt

Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Carrie P. Snow

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

Bo Bennett

So learn how much you're worth to God. Revel in that information and then walk in it.

Michelle McKinney Hammond

The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men, but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

Leo Tolstoy

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

Martha Reeves

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Ava Gardner

Life itself is the proper binge.

Julia Child

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Ellen Glasgow

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Karl Kraus

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

Raymond Chandler