Such a darling child, they would say, and pat her head. And Miriam would answer in her heart: you made my father a slave. You want us all dead. You are the river, you and all of Egypt. You are the river and as long as we stay beside you we are in danger of drowning.

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

Stephen King

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Source Unknown

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Bill Bradley

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Herbert Hoover

You are stronger than you know.

Lori Osterman

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Finley Peter Dunne

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

Kahlil Gibran

Life is like a s--t sandwich. The more bread you eat, the less s--t you gotta take.

Peter Trudelle

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

George Lincoln Rockwell

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

Olivier Theyskens