The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion

Sylvia Plath

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Olive Schreiner

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

William Shakespeare

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.

Wendell Berry

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.

Robert Frost

A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

Carre Otis

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

Simon Travaglia

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Anatole France