If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

Ernest Hemingway

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Roy Scheider

Each person is his own judge.

American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

Paul Ryan

All the practical principles behind the Innovator's case for posterity, or society, or the species, are there from time immemorial in the . But they are nowhere else. Unless you accept these without question as being to the world of action what axioms are to the world of theory, you can have no practical principles whatsoever. You cannot reach them as conclusions: they are premises. (...) If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly, if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

C.S. Lewis

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

James A. Froude

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

Alex Comfort

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Wayne Dyer

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

Janet Evanovich

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

Tommy Lee Jones

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho