I never saw this coming - the little house was working its magic, connecting me to people and materials I never would have guessed would find their way into the picture.

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...It takes patience! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

Maybe is wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go.

Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.

Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.

The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.

Every time you shudder from the cold or wrap yourself more tightly in your furs, it reminds me that somewhere, the sun shines more brightly than it does here. You carry it in your skin.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

The second mouse gets the cheese!

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.