“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

"Ours is a rich and wonderful world, and there are stories everywhere. Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough."

Louis L’Amour, Education of a Wandering Man

"‘It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh,’ said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully, ‘for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.’”

L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it."

Alistair Cooke, quoted in The Write File Quarterly Issue #5, Summer 1995

She dismisses an implausible claim as “like a clock that strikes 13. It throws into question all that has gone before it and all that follows.”

Arianna Huffington in National Review April 5, 1999

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."

Henry Ford, quoted in Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power
 

 "Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."

Alphonse Karr, "French critic and novelist” quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail April 25, 2011

"If you want to see what a 'contribution' really is, look at Man on the cross. That’s a contribution."

Catherine de Hueck Doherty (an odd mystic Russian émigré who founded Madonna House in the Madawaska Valley) quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things Dec. 2000 p. 67.