Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

Mike Ditka

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Alex Grey

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Paulo Coelho

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

Jane Smiley

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

American Indian Proverb, Blackfo

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

Charles Stanley

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Octavia Butler

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

David Miliband

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Walter Benjamin