One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.

John C. Calhoun

I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.

Jay Weatherill

None of us really pushes hard enough.

Fran Tarkenton

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

H. G. Wells

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

Carly Fiorina

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Grover Cleveland

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Helen Schucman

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

Dean Koontz

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

Sara Paretsky

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Anthony Trollope