It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks At

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away

Dinah Mulock

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Ilie Nastase

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Edith Mendel Stern

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Sigmund Freud

Sometimes the prison of fear is so powerful there's no need to lock the cell doors. Your fear creates a willingness to self-imprison.

Steve Maraboli

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

Chriscinthia Blount

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight.

M. F. K. Fisher

The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

Mark Twain

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

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