It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

Saint John of the Cross

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

George Bernard Shaw

Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your strength, because you have survived!

Michel Templet

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Jean Paul

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

Jodi Picoult

I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.

Sam Shoen

All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other.

Benjamin Franklin

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well defined meaning.

H. A. Kramers

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

Mitt Romney

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.

William Hogarth

I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, I don't know, no one has ever made it.

Rodney Dangerfield