The man who truly loves his work returns to it after the briefest rest with a curious kind of voluptuousness. When he is completely absorbed in his job, the end of work seems like the end of life.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Natalie Clifford Barney

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

George Orwell

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Alice Walker

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Benjamin Franklin

There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.

Elizabeth Scott

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Mikhail Baryshnikov

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

John Jay Chapman

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

Calvin Trillin

Mild is the slow necessity of death;The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,Without a groan, almost without a fear,Resigned in peace to the necessity;Calm as a voyager to some distant land,And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Daemon

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf