I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

Ellen G. White

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Barbara Bush

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Nicholson Baker

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

Michelle Shocked

Death is a state of non-being. That which is not, does not exist. Therefore death does not exist. Only truth exists. Truth and beauty. Each is interchangeable, but are aspects of themselves. Er, what specifically did they say they had in mind for me?

Woody Allen

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Crawford

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Samuel Johnson

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Ernest Renan

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Henry David Thoreau

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Space and time are active participants in the dynamics of the cosmos.

Albert Einstein

We celebrate beauty in life and all its possibility so we open it up for others and at the same time for ourselves.

Jay Woodman