And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right.Happy Eighth birthday, blog.

Neil Gaiman

Old age is the verdict of life.

Amelia E. Barr

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance.

William Henry Davies

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Gore Vidal

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

L. Ron Hubbard

When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are.

Daniel Webster

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Billy Sunday

Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.

Steve Maraboli

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

James Bryce

Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more,Macbeth does murder sleep the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of careThe death of each day's life, sore labour's bathBalm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth sai