I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Blaise Pascal

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.

Joseph Conrad

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Thomas Carlyle

The way of the troublemaker is thorny.

American Indian Proverb, Umpqua

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

I have a very strong family.

Janet Jackson

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

Joe E. Lewis

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid