Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

Paul McCartney

Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.

Diane Duane

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

Joel Osteen

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

George Orwell

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Cy Coleman

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Georges Bernanos

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

Henry David Thoreau

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bently

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

Ethel Waters