We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Joseph Roux

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Jim Harrison

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Michael Bloomberg

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

Mary Lou Retton

How would your life be different ifYou stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the dayYou shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

Steve Maraboli

The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.

Mark Hopkins

I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding-place:I ask no other sunshine thanThe sunshine of his face;Content to let the world go by,To know no gain nor loss;My sinful self my only shame,My glory, all the cross.

Elizabeth Clephane, 1868

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Blaise Pascal

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Samuel Johnson