I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

James H. Breasted

How red the rose that is the soldier

Wallace Stevens

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

Source Unknown

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Queen Latifah

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

Source Unknown

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

Wallace Stevens

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Derek Landy