To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Richard Cecil

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H. G. Wells

New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?

Friedrich Nietzsche

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.

Jane Haddam

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

Bob Schieffer

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Thomas A. Bennett

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Source Unknown

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

Malcolm Wilson

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Edward Hoagland

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Gerald R. Ford

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracian

And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes