And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Sam Ewing

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Joe Pantoliano

Want less, live more

Benny Bellamacina

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

Ron Perlman

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce, Ulysses, ch. 2,

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.

Henrik Ibsen

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

When I heard the word stream uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.

James Joyce

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson