If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Doris Lessing

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

Joseph Prince

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

Chris Van Hollen

The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

Robert Alan

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Blaise Pascal

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

Paulo Coelho

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Juvenal

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

John Mayer

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Marva Collins

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

Kij Johnson