But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice. Oh don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Fulton J. Sheen

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Immanuel Kant

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

C.S. Lewis

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X

Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

Lord Beaverbrook

At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.

Neil Gaiman

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

Joe Lieberman

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.-Lukas Jessen-Petersen

Paulo Coelho

I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?

Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigma

What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.

Thomas Dooley

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol