Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
--Alex Haley
We need more plumbers and electricians than we need poets- but we need poets too. There are more bad poets than bad electricians and plumbers. Maybe poets ought to be licensed. --Andy Rooney
When everything seems to be set to show me off as a man of intelligence, the fool I keep concealed in my person takes over my talk and occupies my mouth. --Pablo Neruda
What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. --Stephen King
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original shape. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. --Oscar Wilde
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. --Robert Frost
I receive people in my house for the first time if they bear a good name and wear decent clothes. The second time they are welcomed solely because of what they carry in their hearts and minds. --Talleyrand
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. --Larry McMurtry
