Mark Twain Lake Tahoe Quotes

#1. It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

Sydney Smith

#2. The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, ... but to be with each other.

Christopher McDougall

#3. You have no idea how hard it is for me not to grab you and throw you down on my bed right now. It's taking every ounce of self -restraint I have to be this close to you and not be inside of you.

Michelle Lynn

#4. Discipline is something we despise for the moment ... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Charles Stanley

#5. Near Tokyo lived a great Samurai warrior, now old, who decided to teach Zen Buddhism to young people. In spite of his age, the legend was that he could defeat any adversary.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Artist: An art lover who sees a hole in the art they love and seeks to fill it.

Victor A. Davis

#7. Knowing that another path might have been easier for him to travel, but that it couldn't possibly have offered a more satisfying conclusion.

Garth Stein

#8. Stories come alive in the telling. ( ... )They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.

John Connolly