No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

Source Unknown

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

Lev Grossman

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

Max Lucado

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Stephen Jay Gould

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Zora Neale Hurston

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

John Stuart Mill

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

S. I. Hayakawa

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

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

Paul Ryan

Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!

Orson Welles

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

Paulo Coelho

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol