Pencils

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
- Joyce A. Myers

I am like a pencil in God's hand. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has only to be allowed to be used.
- Mother Teresa, 1910 - 1997

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
- Robert Brault

My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into the physical zone. Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. I have rewritten—often several times—every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
- Vladimir Nabokov, 1899 - 1977