A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Eric Hoffer

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Jodi Picoult

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Intuition is a trust that if we follow our heart, if we follow our love, joy and truth, the Whole becomes enriched.

Swami Dhyan Giten

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Richard M. Nixon

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

David Limbaugh

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

George Allen, Sr.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance...

Terry Pratchett

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

Rita Rudner

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

Paul Farmer

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Edward W. Howe