Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Proverb

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Marcus Aurelius

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

Source Unknown

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

George Eliot

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.

Patina Miller

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Sonia Sotomayor

...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Rene Cassin

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson