As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.

Trio life has the wonderful advantage of not being alone, the pleasure of having success with two other people and the solace when you don't have success.

Bernard Greenhouse

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

Sadaharu Oh

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

Sir Peter Imbert

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Irving Layton

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

William Shakespeare

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Michel de Montaigne

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

John Dewey

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.

Helen Rowland

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

Richelle Mead

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo