Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea... It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginning And sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end.

Wallace Stevens

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Terry Pratchett

I'm a terrible salesman, he finally said. I always tell the truth about what I'm selling, and then nobody buys it.

Orson Scott Card

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

Diane von Furstenberg

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Epicurus

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Mark Helprin

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

Anthony Robbins

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

Randy Neugebauer

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Brett Favre