Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

George Eliot

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Jean Cocteau

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

William Butler Yeats

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

There are several paths to success; We are given multiple opportunities to achieve our potential throughout our lives. Some get there a little faster than others. But one thing is for sure; NO ONE gets there without first having a goal then taking action and LOTS of it!

Rachael Bermingham

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

Jeb Bush

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Rebecca West

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Stephen Levine

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Joseph Schumpeter

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli