It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.

When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

Ian Mcewan

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

William Hurt

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

Seth Brown

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Mahatma Gandhi

Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.

Henry L. Stimson

For one moment seek a lesser beauty and a lesser grace, but you will find no peace in the end save in her presence.

H.D.

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.

Thomas Frank

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

Greg Anderson