You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa

A man who is not poor nor ill, nor about to be stoned to death, must not distress himself if he does not feel all through his life what faith Stephen had only in his last moments.

William Mountford

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Tony Dungy

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Annie Dillard

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...

Cat Stevens

That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.

Jerry Seinfeld

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

Edith Wharton

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

Norman Thomas

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Neil Gaiman

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen