Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

Thomas Carlyle

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Benjamin Franklin

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

Josh Lucas

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucker

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

William J. Clinton

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

Jane Clayson Johnson

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

Jesse Jackson

Lust starts with chemistry. Love starts with trust and respect.

Marian Lanouette

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

Paul Nurse

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

Darnell Lamont Walker