"Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them."

“Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.”

“The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.”

“To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.”

Source : Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

“The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.”

Source : "Only quality journalism can save us, says Sun editor Rebekah Wade" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

“I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.”

“My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.”

“...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.”

“If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.”