The first rule of achieving goodness is this: think only about self-perfection.

I'd rather be right than President.

Henry Clay

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

Jane Austen

Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Bob Grinde

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

Mike Huckabee

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

William James

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow

William Shakespeare

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Helen Hunt Jackson

There is no darkness, but ignorance.

William Shakespeare

Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.

Jacqueline Rayner

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Sheena Easton

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

Jodi Picoult

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes.

Salman Rushdie