“It is a good thing to be a good half-back but it is a mighty bad thing if at forty all you can say of a man is that he was a good half-back.”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“If you haven't got it in you to feel most proud of the times when you work, I think very little of you.”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“There is nothing so good and lovely as when man and wife in their house dwell together in unity and disposition.”— Homer, amazon.com
“I don't do more, but less, than other people. They do all their work three times over: once in anticipation, once in actuality, once in rumination. I do mine in actuality alone, doing it once instead of three times.”— Henry Ward Beecher, amazon.com
“We must either wear out or rust out every one of us. My choice is to wear out.”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“I will make a boisterous pretense at nonsense and my father will leap into the unimportance of it...”— John Fante, amazon.com
“Welcome to Earth, young man. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. At the outside you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of: Goddamn it, Joe, you've got to be kind.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“A dog...when he can't get out a gate will scratch and dig and make meaningless gestures, perhaps growling or whatever, to deal with frustration or surprise or fear.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“For many minutes...he lay awake, shivering, reduced to a primitive terror, comprehending that he had won freedom, and wondering what he could do with anything so unknown and so embarrassing as freedom.”— Sinclair Lewis, amazon.com
“Everything needs to be taken care of. But you don't need to take care of everything.”— Neil Strauss, amazon.com
“Many consider themselves tied down to home; but they often tie themselves down. And if a man has indeed the spirit of travel in him, nothing should be allowed to stand in the way of his doing as he wishes.”— Sir Francis Younghusband, amazon.com
“The mark of the age is that terrible things happen but there is no 'evil' involved.”— Walker Percy, amazon.com
“Instead of the question 'What most I do for my employer?' substitute 'what can I do?'”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“No kindness between man and man comes more naturally than sharing food and drink.”— Cyrus the Great, amazon.com