The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Leaders in the body of Christ must be humble and broken from the Lord’s hand to be truly useful in His kingdom.

I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're ignored by everybody else.

It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.

People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

The commercial for Diet Dr. Pepper says it tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper. Well, then they screwed up!

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.