My only objection to the custom of giving books as Christmas presents is perhaps the selfish one that it encourages and keeps in the game a number of writers who would be far better employed if they abandoned the pen and took to work.http://wodehouse.ru/tt171201.htm

Popularity? It is glory's small change

Victor Hugo

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Russell Banks

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

Dan Hawkins

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Arabic Proverb

Luck is for suckers.

John Green

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

Bill Walton

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

David Cronenberg

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Greg LeMond