Age is no more near than youth To the sceptre and the crown. Vain the wisdom, vain the truth; Do not lay thy rapture down.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

Aerin Lauder

The best way to predict the future is to create

Abraham Lincoln

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Stendhal

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Oscar Wilde

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

Chris Pratt

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

John Jewel

Speak low, if you speak love.

William Shakespeare

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Thomas Jefferson

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

James Payn