A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

C. D. Andrews

By taking things personally, you set yourself up to suffer. The impact on you and the ripple effects on those around you are unhealthy.

Suzanne Mayo Frindt

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Four things greater than all things are,Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

Jimmy Reed

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

E. M. Forster

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future

Victor Hugo

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Eileen Stukane

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

Gerrit Smith

A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

Jennifer Coolidge

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.

Ellen Hopkins