I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Martin Luther

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Paul Theroux

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

George Crabbe

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Norman Ralph Augustine

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

M. H. Abrams

Show us not the aim without the way.For ends and means on earth are so entangledThat changing one, you change the other too;Each different path brings other ends in view

Arthur Koestler

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Steve Guttenberg

There is always room at the top.

Daniel Webster

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge