Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

James Madison

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Sam Walton

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

Rumi

Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was.

Cassandra Clare

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.

Katherine Jenkins

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

Connie Sellecca

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

Will Steger

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

Stuart Sutherland

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it's the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

Lorii Myers

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Thomas Aquinas