Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Aristotle

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Thomas Jefferson

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it

Aristotle

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John F. Kennedy

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representat

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Stephen Gardiner

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Salman Rushdie

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

Charlie Sheen

To be social is to be forgiving.

Robert Frost