Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Dave Barry

There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.

Robert B. Fleming

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Bernie Sanders

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

William Shakespeare

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

Uccello cello cello I love myself.

Peter Levi

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Charles Lamb

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Bob Dylan

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

LeAnn Rimes

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis