I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking to.

Vincent McNabb, God's Way of Mer

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

Ryan Lochte

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

Théodore Guérin

Pray that God is the most important thing in your life, so much so that hurting him wold hurt you. When that happens, and your choices line up with his, it produces an amazing ripple effect of blessings--in your life, that of your family, and for the man you eventually marry.

Julie Lessman

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Sargent Shriver

It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

Christopher Meloni

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

Robert A. Heinlein

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Antoine Rivarol

They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.

William Shakespeare

I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.

Emily Procter