Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

Miranda Lambert

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Bruce Braley

And, most important, we have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

Robert E. Ornstein

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

James Thurber

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

James D. Watson

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Winston Churchill

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Harriet Beecher Stowe