Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Harold Pinter

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

William Wordsworth

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Arianna Huffington

...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

William Gibson

A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep?

Source Unknown

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

Mitch Hedberg

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Joel Osteen

You can't test courage cautiously.

Annie Dillard

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Julie Holz