Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Sirach

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

Ann Oakley

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Louis Farrakhan

I'm as famous as I want to be.

Tracey Ullman

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Vladimir Nabokov

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

Source Unknown

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Wayne Dyer

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

C.S. Lewis

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Carol P. Christ

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

George Saunders

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Pierre Corneille