Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

Gary Miller

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

Wilfrid Laurier

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

George Santayana

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

Harper Lee

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Francis Herbert Hedge

What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand.I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.

Jodi Picoult

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Horace

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Thomas Jefferson

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

Uma Thurman