Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.

Michael Perry

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

John Gotti

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Berkeley Breathed

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Havelock Ellis

I am a man: nothing human is foreign to me.

Menander

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

Tom Vilsack

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.

Jodi Picoult

Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

John Neil

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon

Mark Twain