"Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams."

“The dog is all things to all men.”

Source : Ian Niall (1976). “One man and his dogs”, William Morrow &Company

“Beaten paths are for beaten men.”

Source : "Speaker's encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes" by Jacob Braude, 1955.

“One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.”

“The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.”

“My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.”

Source : "Country Music Sensation Billy Ray Cyrus". Interview with Kelli Gillespie, www.risenmagazine.com. 2013.

“When a team tells you we’re going to let you get your option regardless if you get it or not, that’s a message to you as to what you need to do in order to make this team or to be on this team next year.”

“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”

“Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.”