Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Francis Bacon

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

Mark Haddon

In times of peace the people look most to their representatives; but in war, to the executive solely

Thomas Jefferson

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!

George Burns

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Marilyn Hacker

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Cathy Freeman

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

Carter G. Woodson

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

Robert De Niro

Great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Anon., Nepalese saying

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger