I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Stephen King

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

Scott Hahn

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Roy Rogers

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Sholom Aleichem

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

A. P. Gouthey

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

George Santayana

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Oscar Wilde

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Steven Weinberg

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Lucinda Franks

Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Jacquelyn Gross

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

Hannah Arendt