"If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."
— Henry David Thoreau (Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers)

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
— Danny Kaye

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
— Mark Twain (The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations)

""Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?""
— Julia Cameron