An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

T. S. Eliot

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

Waylon Jennings

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Umberto Eco

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Jimmy Carter

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Connie Sellecca

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Charles Kettering

She was everything that was untouchable.

Sonya Hartnett

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

William Dunbar

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

Al Sharpton

Life and all that is in itis a gift from the infinite mind;And the only way that life can go wrongis by the limited finite mind.

Eric Foley Saucier