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- Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
- Marjorie Holmes
- We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.
- Kabbalah
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
- Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
- Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
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