It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Taylor Caldwell

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Christina Aguilera

All the practical principles behind the Innovator's case for posterity, or society, or the species, are there from time immemorial in the . But they are nowhere else. Unless you accept these without question as being to the world of action what axioms are to the world of theory, you can have no practical principles whatsoever. You cannot reach them as conclusions: they are premises. (...) If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly, if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

C.S. Lewis

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

Proverb

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

Michael Mandelbaum

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Gary Allan

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Orison Swett Marden

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

Edward Blishen

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Woodrow Wilson

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Thornton Wilder