To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Stephen King

Live not by expectation, but by inspiration.

Louise Philippe Dulay

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

Solomon Ortiz

When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.

Simon Mainwaring

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Time and tide wait for no man.

Chaucer

I'm almost a full-time mom.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

George Santayana

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Jack Nicklaus

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no one else in the world has what you have -- your voice, your eyes, your feeling and perspective. Other people have written great books, but no one else will ever write YOUR book. It's worth writing. That is the belief that carries me through.

Rachel Hartman

O bitter is it to abide In weariness alway: At dawn to sigh for eventide, At eventide for day. Thy noon hath fled: thy sun hath shone: The brightness of thy day is gone: What need to lag and linger on Till life be cold and gray?

Lewis Carroll