Things I Know

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

 

  - Pearl Buck

Every house where love abides

 

And friendship is a guest,

 

Is surely home, and home, sweet home

 

For there the heart can rest.

 

  - Henry Van Dyke

"My inspiration is ART. . . Because without ART we would just be stuck with reality."

 

  - Daniel Robert Lynch

Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same...You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

 

  - Heraclitus

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

 

  - Thomas Jefferson

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

 

  - Helen Keller