Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw a stick figure or create a masterpiece...?


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JAMES A. MICHENER
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER
If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit sh...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE
Where would we be without salt?
JAMES A. BEARD
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attenti...
JAMES A. FORBES
Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re...
JAMES A. MOORE
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to cont...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES A. BALDWIN
It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"W...
JAMES A. OWEN
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, it...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Right reason is stronger than force.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a bra...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best ...
JAMES A. FROUDE
Moving a magazine is like ordering 100,000 gallons of alphabet soup, to go. Last week, in Manhattan,...
JAMES A. LINEN
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and ...
JAMES A. FORBES
Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great h...
JAMES A. MICHENER
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES A. BALDWIN
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
By assuming control of Platinum before the expiration of the required waiting period while the Justi...
CHARLES A. JAMES
And no invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons ...
JAMES A. MICHENER
This conduct prematurely reduced competition between the companies. Merging parties must strictly ad...
CHARLES A. JAMES
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and ...
JAMES A. FORBES
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
JAMES A. BALDWIN
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limi...
JAMES A. MICHENER
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life com...
JAMES A. MICHENER
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
JAMES A. MICHENER
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER
Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel li...
JAMES A. MOORE
If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a s...
JAMES A. MICHENER
a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible chang...
JAMES A. MICHENER
I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookou...
JAMES A. MICHENER
I am a poor hater.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Ham...
JAMES A. MICHENER
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
JAMES A. MICHENER