When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Mary Roach

This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Les Brown

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

Virginia Woolf

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Elias Canetti

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara de Angelis

I just loved and love life. I love it today.

Jayne Meadows