Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

It takes a son of a bitch to change a habit.

Stephen King

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Rebecca West

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Paul Harvey

It does say if you don't love your fellow Christians you're not one in the big book.

James Dye

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Daniel Akaka

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

William Shakespeare

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Ernest Hemingway

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.

Emile Durkheim

You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of listening.

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It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

Marc Jacobs

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Percy Bysshe Shelley