A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. E. Housman

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Tracy Kidder

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Louis de Bernieres

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Stephen Levine

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Thomas Jefferson

There's a difference between interestand commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do itonly when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, youaccept no excuses - only results.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Warren G. Bennis

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

English Proverb

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

Sarah Polley

By the Quiet Moment, if you want to be woken by emptiness, Just open your mind, and your heart will meet something... it always has something there.

Suka

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

J. Paul Getty

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy