It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Walter Bagehot

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Margaret Thatcher

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

JeanPaul Sartre

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.

Caroline Corr

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

Anthony Doerr

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

Beau Bridges

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

Kin Hubbard

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

Dale Carnegie

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

Leo Tolstoy