Madeleine Albright
~ As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance . . . but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still–and persevere.
Alexander Graham Bell
~ When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Pearl S. Buck
~Perhaps one has to become very old before one learns how to be amused rather than offended.
Thomas Paine
~ Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Bernadette Peters
~ You’ve got to be original. If you’re like everybody else, what do they need you for?
Andy Rooney
~ Keep in mind that you’re more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
Lisa Scottoline
~ My favorite rejection letter was from an agent who said, “We don’t have time to take on any new clients, and if we did, we wouldn’t want you.” But I kept trying. My second book got published. The first one never did.
Robert Louis Stevenson
~ Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
Kurt Vonnegut
~ You’ve got to be a good date for the reader.
Barbara Walters
~ There are few times in your life when it isn’t too melodramatic to say your destiny hangs on the impression you make.
Colson Whitehead
~ When you get used to being disappointed, the recovery time gets shorter, the time you need before you get back to work gets shorter and shorter.
