The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Charles de Secondat

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Gertrude Jekyll

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Bertrand Russell

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Lillian Smith

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Michael W. Smith

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

Mike Myers

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Orison Swett Marden

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

J.K. Rowling

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

George Bernard Shaw

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

Alan Ladd

Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.

Travis White