It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate...

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. Zora Neale Hurston, “Their Eyes Were Watching...

In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a...

Arbeit macht frei. (Work sets you free). Major Rudolph Hoss, Auschwitz Gate

We are what we love, not what loves us. Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going...

The most profound statements are often said in silence. Lynn Johnston, For Better or...

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire…Give us the...

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read...

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and...

Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you...

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today....

Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends. Trey Parker and...

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will...

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought...

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in...

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs…and jerk the heck out...

Good food ends with good talk. Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and...

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech...

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than...

Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the...

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives....

People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself. Clay Aiken, Teen People

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not...

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned – and if your knowledge were...

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord...

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,...

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang...

When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs...

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just...

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you...

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we...

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. Sir Winston Churchill,...

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention....

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us! Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine,...

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone...

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. Kathleen Norris,...

Repetition is the death of art. Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House,...

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom...

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down,...

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election...

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey...

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address,...

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean

Religion is pickled God. H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming...

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. William Shakespeare, Much...

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin...

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time? Wachowski...

Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now. Sy Rosen...

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern...

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. Diane...

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within...

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to...

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing,...

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is...

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted...

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli,...

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of...

They say dreams are the windows of the soul–take a peek and you can...

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each...

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind...

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith. Diane Frolov...

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on...

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of...

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter;...

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and...

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village...

Every mile is two in winter. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water...

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here...

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. Emily Dickinson,...

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us...

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee:...

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in...

If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects...

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people,...

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one. R. A....

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of...

No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts;...

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where...

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling...

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the...

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. William Henry...

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than...

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus...

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me...

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and...

When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath...

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and...

Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 247, beaming...

When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books....

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he...

I do begin to have bloody thoughts. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene...

I would fain die a dry death. William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene...

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? William Shakespeare,...

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren...

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. William...