"Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice -- like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity." -- Peggy Noonan

"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker." -- George Eliot

"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who in in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself." -- Bertrand Russell

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by." -- Carl Sandburg

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." -- Lorraine Hansberry

"Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." -- Samuel Johnson

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." -- The World Health Organization

"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is a high church." -- Tom Brokaw

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." -- Mother Teresa