I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

Joanna Southcott

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.

Santosh Kalwar

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Marcus Aurelius

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Bernard Baruch

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jan Schakowsky

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

Thomas Kincade

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

Elizabeth Reaser

I won't give up my day job of design.

Kathy Ireland

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

Bethenny Frankel