Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
-Linda Hogan
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
-Anaïs Nin
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
-Socrates
Learning is retained through putting into practice; family prestige is maintained through good behavior; a respectable person is recognised by his excellent qualities; and anger is seen in the eyes.