“I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.”
— Henry Luce

“It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
— Aldous Huxley

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
— John W. Gardner

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.”
— Anne Frank

“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it yourself.”
— Walt Whitman

“I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
— E. B. White

“Determine never to be idle… It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“America is not a place where the small gesture goes noticed. We’re not a country like France, where charm, something light or effervescent, can survive. We want everything you have and we want it as fast as you can turn it out. I read an interview with Frank Sinatra in which he said about Judy Garland, ‘Every time she sings, she dies a little.’ That’s how much she gave. That’s true for writers, too, who hope to create something lasting: they die a little getting it right. And then the book comes out and there’s a dinner and maybe they give you a prize. And then comes the inevitable and very American question: what’s next? But the next thing can be so hard because now you know what it demands.”
— Harper Lee (as played by Sandra Bullock), “Infamous”

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.”
—Dennis Wholey