Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

John Henrik Clarke

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Henry David Thoreau

A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.

Thomas Ybarra

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

John Burroughs

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

e. e. cummings

[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.

Edmond de Goncourt

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Mason Cooley

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

Anne Tyler

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

Sheryl Crow

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Nolan Bushnell

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

Oliver Hudson

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Yiddish Proverb