The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. ..

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

Preston Manning

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

Rob Walton

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

Bertrand Russell

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Leo Buscaglia

But what is life if you don't live it?

James Patterson

Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Elisabeth Claiborne Ortenberg

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

George Orwell

Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

Source Unknown

I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.

Samuel Johnson

Pain is only what you allow it to be

Cassandra Clare