Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her sunshyny face / To tell, were as to strive against the streame.

Edmund Spenser

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

George Sand

Because paper has more patience than people.

Anne Frank

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

E. Stanley Jones

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

Clarice Lispector

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

James Houston

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These heroes are dead. They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars - they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

Robert G. Ingersoll

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Tina Weymouth

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

S. I. Hayakawa