Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

Stephen Gardiner

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man sets requirements only for himself; an unwise man makes requirements for others.

Leo Tolstoy

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Jodi Picoult

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.

Elmore Leonard

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Alice Walker

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

Fran Drescher

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

Celine Dion

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Paulo Coelho

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

Ralph Abernathy

Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?Scorn and derision never come in tears:Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears.How can these things in me seem scorn to you,Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

William Shakespeare