A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!

Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you.

People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.

Snug pants, bandeau-type corset, and trim, motorcycle jacket. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover

work. play. passion.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.