“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

        — Garth Brooks

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”

        — Erin Major

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet.”

        — Unknown

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”

        — C. S. Lewis

“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”

        — Don Herrold

“He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

        — Stephen Leacock

“It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.”

        — David Cain

“There’s a word for a writer who never gives up… published.”

        — Joe Konrath

“My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.”

        — Ashleigh Brilliant

“Liz is different from all the other girls I’ve known. For one thing, she likes me.”

        — Jon, Garfield

“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”

        — Fulton Oursler

“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.”

        — William Stafford

“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”

        — Howard Mumford Jones

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day”

        — Sarah Hepola

“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

        — Unknown

“Hardware without software is just heat.”

        — Doug Fisher

“If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.”

        — Oliver Herford

“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

        — Horace Mann

“The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.”

        — Arthur Lacey

“I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.”

        — Bella Abzug