I felt compelled to perform -- to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren?t aware how much it carried me through.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

June Singer

NOTHING goes exactly as planned.Make your OWN destiny

Tate Hallaway

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

Erika Cosby

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Julia Ward Howe

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Joyce Carol Oates

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Charles Dickens

Stability is not immobility.

Klemens Von Metternich

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Khalil Gibran

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Ronald Reagan

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Isabel Allende