Live out of your imagination, not your history.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Andre Gide

If she America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

Carl Sandburg

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Source Unknown

You must be a prophet right enough, said Alvin Junior, cause I can't understand a thing you said.

Orson Scott Card

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Hugh Leonard

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

W. H. Auden

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

Sylvia AshtonWarner, Spinster

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.

Og Mandino

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Mason Cooley

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

Mark Twain

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Eleanor Roosevelt