Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Paul Brown

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

D.J. MacHale

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

Lauren Oliver

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Walter Mosley

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

W.H. Auden

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

What are world needs is not more violence, hatred and injustice that keeps consuming mankind but love,peace and justice for all of humanity to bask in.

Timothy Pina

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Michael J. Fox

A fence should be horse high, hog tight and bull strong.

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To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.

William Mountford