Precise routine dissolves the day - Napoleon

Precise routine dissolves the day - Napoleon

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even w

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. -Thomas Mann, novelist, Nobel laureate (1875-1955)

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
-- James Gordon, M.D.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. -- John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers

History never looks like history when you are living through it.
-- John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. -- Henry Ford

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
-- Henry Ford

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. -- Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
-- Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. -- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children. -- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
-- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. -- Matthew Arnold, 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
-- Matthew Arnold, 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
-- Unknown

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson