Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn’t need if you had stayed single.
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn’t need if you had stayed single.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
– Jimi Hendrix
My definition of a redundancy is an air bag in a politician’s car.
– Larry Hagman
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is good reading for those who write but have trouble identifying with that…there are so many in the same boat! (From Literary Hub)

I’m a writer. For years, I couldn’t say it. I wondered when I would. How many publications would it take? What finish line would I cross? And then it happened: at a wine tasting, a place I already didn’t belong, when a petite, dark-haired woman serving wine, asked me what I did.
“I’m a writer,” I said, trying it out.
“Oh,” she said, eyeing me. “What is it you write?”
“Er… essays,” I said.
“A book?”
I shook my head. There was no book. Maybe someday. I told her so. Then, as I walked away, she said it. “Good luck on your little book.”
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
— Suzy Kassem
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
— E. L. Doctorow
My New Year’s resolutions are:
1. Stop making lists.
B. Be more consistent.
III. Finish what I
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
— Bob Hope
Well done is better than well said.
— Benjamin Franklin