It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Martin Mull

It's a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

James Thurber

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Edgar Degas

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Thomas Jefferson

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

Shimon Peres

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

John Saxe

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Isaac Barrow

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

American Indian Proverb

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Rebecca West

I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.

Sharon Shinn