I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon)'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbellyof a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times Istayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that Iwould not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that myfather worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to comehome to a house that felt too big for us.

Jodi Picoult

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

A. N. Wilson

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Whoopi Goldberg

No person is either as happy or as unhappy as they imagine. Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

Source Unknown

The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, The thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance.

Hugh Stevenson Tigner

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Lech Walesa

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

Herbie Mann

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

Jim Al-Khalili

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

William Blake

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov