My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Mark Twain

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Anon.

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

Jon Heder

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

Jose Ramos-Horta

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

Elisabeth Elliot

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

Neil Peart

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

Kate DiCamillo

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Hubert Humphrey

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business.

Chester A. Arthur

A man must earnestly want.

William Frederick Book