Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Jeremy Collier

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Milan Kundera

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Megan Fox

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

David McCallum

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

Samuel Johnson

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Edward Young

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Julia C. R. Dorr

It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe youtry to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself!

Thomas Merton

Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always wanted to be a mom.

Holly Madison

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

Naomi Wolf

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.

William T. Davis