Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

?Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

Thomas S. Monson

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Abraham Lincoln

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Richard Powers

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

James Thurber

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Daniel Webster

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

William Ellery Channing

The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.

Robert Frost

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.

John Cam Hobhouse

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton