Here's a nice little quote from Lynn Vincent, features editor for WORLD Magazine, with his permission:

"This process of writing 90 minutes a day, no matter what needs writing, also helps break the cycle of being a 'deadline-driven' writer. I used to be able to write only on deadline. That not only accelerated aging, it also ensured my writing was almost never as good as it could have been."

Somebody pasted this in a discussion forum with no link. If anybody can verify it with a webpage address, please add it to comments.

When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.

He answered by saying that, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."

It became very quiet in the room.

Author John Maxwell* wrote, "When Goliath came up against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, He's so big we can never kill him. David looked at the same giant and thought, He's so big I can't miss."

You may have a Goliath staring down at you. What are you thinking?
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*John Maxwell, The Winning Attitude (Nelson, 1993), p. 41.

Picked this up off a quote list today.

In the "dynamic" religion that we are being promised for tomorrow, no ascetic discipline or special humbleness will any longer be required. It will be a hot-water bottle kind of piety with none of that gritty old morality it in. It will be a brand of faith that has been synthesized, vitaminized, homogenized, and capsulized, and it will be as ready-made for effortless consumption as that magically bleached, cottony, crustless, already sliced white bread which is the symbol of the modern American's massive superiority over the pagan bushwhacker. —Curtis Cate, God and Success

"There is no failure in life other than not trying. If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't 'fail.' You've 'tried your best.'" --Jane Seymour, Actress