top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much."
Standard
Customized
More
"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Goodnight, June."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't know any writers who don't drink."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You might try doing what my folks did. Twice a week they would go out for a special meal. . . with wine good food and soft lighting. Dad took Tuesday and Mom took Thursday."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and communicate his personality to the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
Faith
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
Hope
"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."
Nature
"A good beginning makes a good end."
Wisdom
"I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means."
Philosophy
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
Literature
"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."
Morality
"There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming."
Bravery
"You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it."
Nature
"No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them."
Leadership
bottom of page