The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one

Oscar Wilde

The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.

B. R. Hayden

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

Sylvia Plath

It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege so little known to most men, that it seems almost incredible to those who, after the ordinary way, measure all others by themselves; but yet, when considered, may help us to enlarge our thoughts towards greater perfections of it, in superior ranks of spirits.

John Locke

Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.

Kurt Vonnegut

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

If the reviewing of books be... an ungentle craft, the making of them is, for the most part, a dishonest one -- and that department of literature which ought to be entrusted to those only who are distinguished for their moral qualities is, not infrequently, in the hands of authors totally devoid of good taste, good feeling, and generous sentiment. The writers of Lives have, in our time, assumed a license not enjoyed by their more scrupulous predecessors -- for they interweave the adventures of the living with the memoirs of the dead; and, pretending to portray the peculiarities which sometimes mark the man of genius, they invade the privacy and disturb the peace of his surviving associates.

John Cam Hobhouse

One day closer to retirement

Not sure

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

Charles Wesley

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

Jane Austen