"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead & rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." - Benjamin Franklin
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
"I never dared to be a radical when young for fear it would make me a conservative when old."
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the best lawyer."
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung, not because it is far away and can’t be reached but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. - Gangaji, Author and Spiritual Teacher
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors." - Pablo Picasso
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book--it makes a very poor doorstop." - Alfred Hitchcock
"The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business." - John Steinbeck
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." - Sam Ewig
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown
Tedious and deliberate effort. If your vision of a writer involves sitting in a cafe, sipping an aperitif with one's fellow geniuses, become a drunk. It's easier and far less exhausting." - William Hefferman
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elemental truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance which no man or woman would have dreamed could have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic to it. Begin it now." -- Goethe
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