"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain

"The waste basket is a writer's best friend."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer

"The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee
one clover, and a bee,
and revery
The revery alone will do
if bees are few.
-Emily Dickinson

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
-Mark Twain

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
-Jean Cocteau

"What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better."
-Wendell Phillips

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

"If you think education is expensive--try ignorance."
-Derek Bok

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, not the trees.
-Revelations 7:3

"Learn to see God in all persons, of whatever race or creed. You will know what divine love is when you begin to feel your oneness with every human being, not before. In mutual service we forget the little self and glimpse the one measureless self, the spirit that unifies all men."
-Paramahansa Yogananda

"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
-Carl Sandburg

"You always pass failure on the way to success."
-Mickey Rooney

"My own experience if that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying ... one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on the story."
-Anton Chekhov

"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand."
-Michelangelo

Happy Valentines Day

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend.
-John 15:12-13

"Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens."
-Judah ibn-Tibbon

"We like winning. We've tried both and winning is better. But don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?"
-Lane Kirkland

"Make voyages! Attempt them ... there's nothing else."
-Tennessee Williams

"A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter ... a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down."
-E.B. White

"Attempt the impossible to improve your work."
-Bette Davis

"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you were pleased with yourself there you have remained. But once you have said, 'It is enough,' you are lost. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing; do not stop, do not turn back, do not turn from the straight road."
-St. Augustine

"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you ... It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it: it will make you a person in your own right."
-Maxwell Anderson

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."
-Max L. Forman

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
-1 Corinthians 9:24

"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high."
-Henry David Thoreau

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
-Proverbs 23:22

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with rain."
-Dolly Parton

Neglect not the gift that is in thee.
-1 Timothy 4:14