If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of the good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it is passed, until simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.

Dean Koontz, the character of H.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.

Christine Anderson

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Albert Einstein

...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...

John Geddes

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

Harold MacMillan

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.

Heather Morris

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Joseph Cannon

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

Friedrich Engels

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

David Cameron

The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.

Maurice Switzer

Nullius in verba

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