Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Edward W. Howe

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

J. M. Coetzee

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.

Louisa May Alcott

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

John Muir

The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

John Green

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Maxim Gorky

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

Boz Scaggs

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Albert Einstein

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

Shirley Manson

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Oscar Wilde

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Leo Tolstoy

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

Medgar Evers