He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in the gray light of that fall morning. His heart leaped up and although he didn't know it then, it was how he would remember her most clearly forever after- lovely Susan, the girl in the window. So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

Stephen King

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

William Butler Yeats

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive

William Shakespeare

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

Sally Ride

Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.

Italian Proverb

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

Aaliyah

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Sargent Shriver

What Jesus spoke was Truth; the way He spoke was gracious. He spoke the truth in love. God is love, and the Son of God spoke lovingly.

James Hamilton

Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow -- or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

Source Unknown

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

Thomas Tusser

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone