Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

Josh McDowell

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Frederick William Robertson

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Jerzy Kosinski

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

Barbara Corcoran

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Dave Barry

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

Tom Dempsey

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Octavio Paz

I hate art auctions.

Jerry Saltz

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

John Dawkins

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Aristotle