More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said she was a quiet-tempered lady, and the housekeeper had said it was the common lot, and the butler had said who'd have thought it, and the housemaid had said she couldn't hardly believe it, and the footman had said it seemed exactly like a dream, they had quite worn the subject out, and began to think their mourning was wearing rusty too.

Charles Dickens

I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it it really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one.

G.K. Chesterton

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Source Unknown

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.

Raymond Radiguet

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Samuel Butler

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

Lance Bass

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.

Yusef Lateef

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

Charles Sumner