When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature. (Ernest Hemingway)
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. (William Hazlitt)
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. (Baltasar Gracian)
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. (Eugene Forsey)
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. (Jewish Proverb)
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. (Henry Ward Beecher)
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. (Publilius Syrus)
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. (Aeschylus)
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. (Stephen Stills)
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. (Robertson Davies)
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. (James Barrie)
A good home must be made, not bought. (Joyce Maynard)
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. (H.L. Mencken)
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. (Henry Fielding)
The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since. (Kareem Abdul-Jabar)