The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Bryant H. McGill

My strength is as the strength of ten. Because my heart is pure.

Alfred Tennyson

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

Stephen King

Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.

Steve Maraboli

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

David Lloyd George

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that...

Tom Clancy

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Thomas Mann

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Jimmy Carter

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

Jerry Saltz

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Gustave Courbet