What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

Richard Kiel

Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be.

Marty Rubin

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

Warren Bennis

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Angelina Jolie

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Billie Holiday

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthur

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Lord Chesterfield

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Paul Harris

I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building... Ichanged my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over andlanded on my feet. Two little kittens nearby saw what happenedand one turned to the other and said, See, that's how it'sdone.

Steven Wright

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Lillian Hellman