And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Catharine Esther Beecher

A rose by any other nameWould get the blameFor being what it is--The colour of a kiss,The shadow of a flame.A rose may earn another name,So call it love;So call it love I will,And love is like the sea,Which changes constantly,And yet is stillThe same.

Tanith Lee

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Carlo Goldoni

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Marshall McLuhan

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Harry S Truman

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

Seann William Scott

...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

John Geddes

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Brian Tracy

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are not creatures of despair.

Joseph Conrad

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Charles Reade