There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.

Dia Reeves

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Jane Austen

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Brenda Ueland

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

Charles H. Spurgeon

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, no.

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

Patricia Briggs

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Ralph Merkle

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.

Carnie Wilson

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Kahlil Gibran

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Mark Twain

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Judge Learned Hand