The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right

William Cowper

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted.

Erica Jong

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

David Leigh Eddings

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

Taylor Caldwell

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Gertrude Stein, The Geographical

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

Jessye Norman

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

Naomi Wolf

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

C.S. Lewis

Composing is my life blood.

Morton Gould

There is no indispensable man.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs.

Tony Gaskin