Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Bill Watterson

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Blaise Pascal

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Justin Kaplan

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Source Unknown

?Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is -- in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree -- it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime -- the invention of Hell. Measured by our Christianity of to-day, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the Deity nor His Son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

Mark Twain

I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade.

Jodi Picoult

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

Thomas S. Monson

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Benjamin Franklin

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.

Marcel Proust