The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

Condoleezza Rice

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

G. K. Chesterton

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Jean Rostand

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Johann von Goethe

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Edmund Burke

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

George Saunders

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

Joni Mitchell

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

Theodore L. Cuyler

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

Keith Emerson

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

John A. Shedd