Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

Bernadette Peters

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Publilius Syrus

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.

Myriam Miedzian

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Thomas Aquinas

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother

Mark Twain

What she really craved was a connection. That feeling you got when you knew you were supposed to be with someone.

J. Sterling

Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

H. L. Mencken

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

Dana Plato