Im as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! – Samuel Smiles
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. – Samuel Smiles

Im as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! – Samuel Smiles
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. – Samuel Smiles
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. – Samuel Smiles
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything Ive learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novels length, satisfies the reader. – Ron Rash