The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!?

Timothy Pina

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Dr. A. B. Meldrum

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius

Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.

Steven J. Lee

She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ...

Dan Simmons

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

Anthony Weiner

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

Gabrielle Union

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Dorothy Riera

Spaghetti is love.

Mario Batali

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins