One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

Richard Moss

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. On being an actor

Harrison Ford

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Herbert Spencer

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

Charles The Bold

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Confucius

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Francis H. Bradley

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Oprah Winfrey

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Garrison Keillor

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Bertrand Russell

Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

John Greenleaf Whittier