A feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills him; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in -- and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud. But it's kind of slow, and takes a long time.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Tim Cahill

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

George A. Sheehan

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

La sua vita era ancora troppo breve, per sapere che non c'è cosa più imminente dell'impossibile, e che quanto dobbiamo sempre prevedere è l'imprevisto.

Victor Hugo

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Dr. Marcus Bach

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Amy Plum

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Soren F. Petersen

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

J. B. Priestley

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

Albert Camus

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

Sandra Fluke