Author Quotes: Inspiring Words from Literary Masters

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water"

Sophocles, Author

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"Success is a journey, not a destination"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us"

Helen Keller, Author

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology"

Clive James, Author

"You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place"

James Lane Allen, Author

"One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little"

Alexander Chase, Author

"Years teach us more than books"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Have a strong mind and a soft heart"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Very likely education does not make very much difference"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

Henry David Thoreau, Author