"A clear consience bears any trouble."
A. C. Grayling

"An evil deed has a witness in the bosom."
A. C. Grayling

"Confidence is a plant of slow growth."
A. C. Grayling

"To be full of oneself is to be empty."
A. C. Grayling

"No road is long in good company."
A. C. Grayling

"Children have more need of examples than criticism."
A. C. Grayling

"Do good, and ask not for whom."
A. C. Grayling

"Better to give one than promise two."
A. C. Grayling

"To badcharacter good doctrine avails nothing."
A. C. Grayling

"Trust more in charater than promises."
A. C. Grayling

"Charater is the result of conduct."
A. C. Grayling

"Character is what you are in the dark."
A. C. Grayling

"There is much unmapped territory within us."
A. C. Grayling

"Character is esier kept than recovered."
A. C. Grayling

"There is no ultimate destination -
no finish line to cross,
no final conclusion to be reached.
It's the way I feel about dancing -
you move around a lot,
not to get somewhere,
but to be somewhere in time."
R. Fulghum

"Ill ware is never cheap."
A. C. Grayling

"My trade and my art is living."
M. E. de Montaigne

"It might well be said of me that
here I have merely made up a bunch
of other men's flower,  and have
brought nothing but the string
that ties them together in a bunch,
which I gladly offer you."
M. E. de Montaigne

"Sort through your life as truthfully as possible."
M. Alibrando

"If you notice phrases, ideas, and
anecdotes that closely resemble those
that appear elsewhere in any writing,
It's not a matter of sloppy editing, 
I'm repeating myself.
I'm reshuffling words in the hope that
just once I may say something exactly right."
R. Fulghum

"Work-in-progress on a life-in-progress
is what my writing is about.
And some progress in the work
is enough to keep it going."
R. Fulghum

"They are not well bred
that cannot abid
ill breeding in others"
A. C. Grayling 

"Nothing happens until
the pain of staying the same
outweighs the pain of change."
A. Burt

"Change happens when the pain of
holding on becomes greater
than the fear of letting go."
S. Johnson

"Word by word the great books are written."
A. C. Grayling

"The books that help most are those
that prompt the most thought."
A. C. Grayling

"Books give no wisdom where
there was not wisdom before."
A. C. Grayling

"Books are ships that traverse the seas of time."
A. C. Grayling

"Something is learned every time a book is opened."
A. C. Grayling

"Boldness leads to the highest or to the lowest."
A. C. Grayling