Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you...

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Frederick William Robertson

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

John Kluge

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Friedrich Nietzsche

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Neil Gaiman

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai Stevenson

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

George Papandreou

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

Charles W. Pickering

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Sarah Dessen

The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.

Eleanor Mondale

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau