Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Pat Riley

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

Haruki Murakami

I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship.

Paul Cellucci

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

LaoTzu

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Daniel Webster

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

William Seward

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

Jim McDonald

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

William Congreve

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

Neil deGrasse Tyson

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Jodi Picoult