Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

Mervyn Peake

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

Ernest Hemingway

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

Patrick Swift

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Sylvia Plath

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Michael Korda

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

Confucius

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Edward R. Murrow

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Tim Kaine

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

Vince Vaughn

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

John Sergeant Wise

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Marilyn Monroe

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson