"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."

Baldwin, James on Writers and Writing
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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

Bach, Richard on Writers and Writing
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"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster."

Asimov, Isaac on Writers and Writing
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"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on Perseverance
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves."

Churchill, Winston on Perseverance
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"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."

Chesterfield, Lord on Perseverance
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"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on Perseverance
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

Andrews, Julie on Perseverance
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on Love
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on Love
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on Love
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"No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Perseverance
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"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."

Twain, Mark on Perseverance
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"Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most."

Unknown, Source on Kindness
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"Be the kind of person you would like to be with."

Unknown, Source on Kindness
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible"

Nabakov, Vladimir on Words, Language
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"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

Unknown, Source on Kindness
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"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

Joubert, Joseph on Kindness
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

Gibran, Kahlil on Kindness
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"As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech."

Francke, Katherine on Kindness
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"The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God."

Burns, Robert on Kindness
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"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight."

Thoreau, Henry David on Minorities
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"Even the best things are not equal to their fame."

Thoreau, Henry David on Fame
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"We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not."

Thoreau, Henry David on Faith
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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

Thoreau, Henry David on Failure
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"The heart is forever inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on Emotions
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on Eccentricity
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"Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave."

Proverb, Yiddish on People
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"The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground."

Melville, Herman on Madness
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"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on Distrust
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on Hope
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

Franklin, Benjamin on Hope
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"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

Richter, Jean Paul on Death and Dying
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"Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on Coward and Cowardice
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on Death and Dying
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"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."

Christie, Agatha on Regret
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on Genius
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"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."

Ash, Mary Kay on Limitation
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"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."

Ash, Mary Kay on Risk
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"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Things and Little Things
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