Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style? and avoid How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

George Washington

Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I'm sure he's a talented man.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.

Roger Clemens

Hope is the parent of faith.

Cyrus A. Bartol

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Albert Camus

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms -- in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Karl Kraus

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

Pam Brown

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Dale Evans

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway