And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

All authority belongs to the people

Thomas Jefferson

Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Christopher Brennan

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The ''marketing'' immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.

Jean Baudrillard

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Harding Lawrence

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Howard Dean

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

Ludwig van Beethoven

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

Maggie Stiefvater

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Max Walker

If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson