God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Other men have said, If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire. This Christ of Galilee says, My death shall do it. Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?

Herrick Johnson

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Jodi Picoult

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Thomas Tusser

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

G. K. Chesterton

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

W. I. E. Gates

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Mitch Albom

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Prince Philip Edinburgh

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Liza Minnelli

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories

Mark Twain

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Dante Alighieri