I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

Lewis Thomas

Long you must suffer, knowing not what,until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.

Martina Hingis

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Ray Bradbury

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Newton D. Baker

More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.

Deb Caletti

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

Michael Gove

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.

Spike Lee

For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.

Ridley Pearson

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher