If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Chinese Proverb

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

Jane Fonda

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

Source Unknown

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Vaclav Havel

Success is the ability to rise above principle.

Gerald Barzan

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;

Mark Twain

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl Buck, My Several Worlds, 1

James Carstairs! Jem! Where are you, you disloyal bastard?

Cassandra Clare

The most underused chemical-free, safe, effective, alternative medicine is spelled R-E-S-T.

Saundra Dalton-Smith

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Theodore Bikel

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Jeanette Winterson

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Thomas Carlyle