I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Thales

I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/stanfordtoday/ed/9809/9809fea101.shtml

Tobias Wolff, interview with Sta

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

John Milton

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Thomas Aquinas

I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.

Kenneth Branagh

The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those people speak most who do not have much to say.

Leo Tolstoy

Strange things are always abounding. Watch and discern. There is always a lesson to be learned.

Vanessa Richardson

When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.

Robert Bridges

We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God.

Steve Maraboli

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

Mitch McConnell