Robert

“For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
― Jessamyn West

“as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!”
― Brenda Jackson, Perfect Timing

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual mastery of self, talent, and money. Gold created the get-rich-quick mentality that has been with us ever since, most recently during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.”
― Pete Hamill, Downtown: My Manhattan