Michael Sliney

“That kind of friendship doesn’t just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.”
— Tana French

“There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.” (My Cousin Rachel, 1951)

“Climb mountains, not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.”

— David McCoullough Jr.

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” Winston Churchill