You talked animatedly for some time about language being the aniseed trail that draws the hounds of heaven when the metaphysical fox has gone to earth; he must have thought you were barmy.

Tom Stoppard

The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.

Dorcas Hardy

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up, depends on us.

L Thomas Holdcroft

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

Wilfred A Peterson

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Anna Quindlen