Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Joseph Conrad

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

Mark Twain

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Beverly Cleary

...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

J.K. Rowling

There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.

Everette Dennis

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Brian Lumley

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

Tom Holt

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Jamie Foxx

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

Roger Wicker

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that so this was just a step for me in that direction.

Diana Ross

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage is wonderful.

Jennifer Aniston