A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman but a writing man and woman is exact.
Marcus Garvey
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'Connor
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also.
Theodore Roosevelt
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Amelia Barr
And I come here as a daughter raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Michelle Obama
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
All of us are creatures of a day, the rememberer and the remembered alike
Marcus Aurelius
