But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

When the time for recognition of service to the nation in wartime comes to be considered, Bob Hope should be high on the list. This man drives himself and is driven. It is impossible to see how he can do so much, can cover so much ground, can work so hard, and can be so effective. He works month after month at a pace that would kill most people.

John Steinbeck, Once There Was A

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

LeAnn Rimes

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Jodi Picoult

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I do not believe abortion should be legal.

Herman Cain

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

Virginia Woolf

It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start (She looks like a Winnifred to me), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.

Terry Pratchett

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

William Shakespeare

Water flows humbly to the lowest level.Nothing is weaker than water,Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong,Nothing surpasses it.

LaoTzu, Tao Te Ching

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

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Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

The difficulty in life is the choice.

George Moore