With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you.

Charles Ives

He is rich who owes nothing.

Proverb

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Jessica Savitch

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Augusto Roa Bastos

It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Henry David Thoreau

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

David M. Shoup

In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Bible

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

William Hazlitt

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Charles Peguy

If you don't care, your customer never will.

Marlene Blaszczyk