I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Peter Stuyvesant

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

C.S. Lewis

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.

Thomas Gray

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Dave Eggers

If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.

Jim Fiebig

Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.

Stephen Richards

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

William Pollard

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

George Allen, Sr.

I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Abraham Lincoln

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

R.A. Salvatore