In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

Grover Norquist

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.

Picabo Street

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. Ecclesiastes 9:10

Bible

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers

Anon.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

George Jessel

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Jim Butcher

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Cardinal Mermillod

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and

Joseph Addison

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

Brock Yates

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

Golda Meir

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

Regina King