I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

Robert Sternberg

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Hilaire Belloc

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

The tower of heaven turns darker blue; a starry sparkle now begins; The mystery and magnificence, the myriad beauty and the sins Come back to me.

George William Russell

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Samuel Richardson

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

Conrad Black

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

Carol Burnett

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

John Locke

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

Kate Middleton

The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.

Orson Scott Card

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

Marianne Williamson