It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens

But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

Carrie Underwood

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Jesus Christ

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.

Albert Camus

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down...or prisons self-imposed.

Chriscinthia Blount

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Doris Lessing

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

Source Unknown

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

Julia Woodruff

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Heraclitus

And even if you hate her, can't stand her, even if she's ruining your life, there's something about her, some romance, some power. She's absolutely herself. No matter how hard you try, you'll never get to her. And when she dies, the world will be flat, too simple, reasonable, fair.

Mona Simpson

The human spirit sublimatesthe impulses it thwarts:a healthy sex life mitigatesthe lust for other sports.

Piet Hein

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

Carl Sagan