Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Steven Millhauser

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

Tedd Tripp

Thy duty do? rejoined the voice, Ah, do it, do it, and rejoice; But shalt thou then, when all is done, Enjoy a love, embrace a beauty Like these, that may be seen and won In life, whose course will then be run; Or wilt thou be where there is none? I know not, I will do my duty.

Arthur Hugh Clough

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Benjamin Disraeli

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Otto von Bismarck

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Marie Dressler

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

Francis Picabia

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Neil Gaiman

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

John Wycliffe

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Yogi Berra

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

Mark Twain

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.

Henry David Thoreau