The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

Jane Austen

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

Martin Amis

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Jim Harrison

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Ann Brashares

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

Mike Rounds

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

Harry Chapin

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Gustav Mahler

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

Wendell Berry

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman