The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect.

W. Clement Stone

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

Lauren Oliver

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Seamus Heaney

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

Naomi Wolf

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

Peter Carey

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Abraham Lincoln

History develops, art stands still.

E. M. Forster

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

Neil Gaiman

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Norman Cousins

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

William E. Gladstone