I like to write with people I have a relationship with otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

Ida B. Wells

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

Sonya Hartnett

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Edmund Burke

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

Vince Carter

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Jim Rohn

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

William Shatner

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

Bobby Sands

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

Libby Trickett

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Sir Winston Churchill