Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which he attains by means of the senses. For this cause he must have the phantasms and the forms of objects present in themselves and in their likenesses; otherwise it cannot be, for, as philosophers say: Ab objecto et potentia paritur notitia. That is: From the object that is present and from the faculty, knowledge is born in the soul. Wherefore, if one should speak to a man of things which he has never been able to understand, and whose likeness he has never seen, he would have no more illumination from them whatever than if naught had been said of them to him.

Saint John of the Cross, The Asc

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

Drew Carey

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work...It would be more useful than divination, anyway...

J.K. Rowling

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

Skeet Ulrich

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Sylvia Plath

I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter

Samuel Johnson

When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.

Orson Scott Card

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Trina Paulus

Little pots soon boil over.

Source Unknown

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits

Napoleon Hill

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

William Mcgovern

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.

James Lusarde