I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.
Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.
I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.