As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Kurt Vonnegut

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

Michael H. Hart

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

William Butler Yeats

I think that God will provide opportunities and people and experiences, and everything we need to date and ultimately to find the one.

Henry Cloud

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Pablo Picasso

A full 'definition of an object must include the whole of human experience, both as a criterion of truth and a practical indicator of its connection with human wants.

Vladimir Lenin

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.

Jodi Picoult

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Dan Rather

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

David Sarnoff

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Nicholas Boileau

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Ralph Marston