I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

Mireille Enos

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Homer

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm. I would just like to be more like Troy, because he's so cool.

Zac Efron

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Anonymous

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

Louis Finkelstein

Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain

Sharon Salzberg

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Stephen King

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

John Arbuthnot

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel