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- When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
- Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
- Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
- Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
- Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
- Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
- Ice T, The Ice Opinion
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
- Underpromise; overdeliver.
- Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune
- Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
- If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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