Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.

Philip Roth

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

Sherman Alexie

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that, by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen. These considerations, and others such as these, may enable us in some measure to surmount the difficulties thrown in our way; to bear up with a tolerable degree of patience under the burden of life; and to proceed with a pious and unshaken resignation, till we arrive at our journey's end.

Thomas Jefferson

I don't know if I have ever truly believed that everyone deserves love. But if I had to take it one moment further into those shadowed valleys of heartfull, I would admit that I do believe that love, deserves everyone.

Mikl Paul

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

Jenova Chen

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

George Bernard Shaw

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Jacob Bronowski

.. art and life are no longer separate domains....The word 'art' no longer has anything to say to us. In place of that, we (= De Stijl) insist upon the construction of our surroundings according to creative laws, deriving from a fixed principle.

Theo van Doesburg

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Thomas Aquinas

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Robert Falcon Scott

We are treated different because we want to be treated different.

Santosh Kalwar

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.

Tom Fleming