I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Joan Didion
US author & journalist (1934 - )

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

John Herschel
English astronomer (1792 - 1871)

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot
English economist & journalist (1826 - 1877)

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams
US author, autobiographer, & historian (1838 - 1918)

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930)

**Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.            

**Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

**Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.               

**Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.             

**If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

**Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.                

**The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.                         

**The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.                

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)