Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Anatole France

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

William Shakespeare

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

Billy Graham

I didn't know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.

Patricia A. McKillip

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They say women talk too much. If you ever worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented yb men.

Clare Boothe Luce

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

George Orwell

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

William Wordsworth

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Charles Stanley

He'd never asked for an exciting life. What he really liked, what he sought on every occasion, was boredom. The trouble was that boredom tended to explode in your face. Just when he thought he'd found it he'd be suddenly involved in what he supposed other people - thoughtless, feckless people - would call an adventure. And he'd be forced to visit many strange lands and meet exotic and colourful people, although not for very long because usually he'd be running. He'd seen the creation of the universe, although not from a good seat, and had visited Hell and the afterlife. He'd been captured, imprisoned, rescued, lost and marooned. Sometimes it had all happened on the same day.

Terry Pratchett

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

William Shakespeare

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

Lucille Ball