Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

Proverb

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Dean Koontz

Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

J. D. Salinger

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne, Elegy 9, The Autumna

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.

Neil Gaiman

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Dont look for something that isn't there, because you're never going to find it

Jayden P

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Andy Roddick

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Laura Carmichael