Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life...

Pay attention to what you pray for. Your prayers are not just a reflection of your desires and hopes; they are a guide for personal behavior. PRAY it, BE it, and you will SEE it.

Steve Maraboli

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.

Clarence E. Hodges

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Thomas Sowell

You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

James Branch Cabell

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Joel Osteen

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Janis Ian

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Chapman Cohen

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Sophia Loren

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Hazel Scott

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Michel de Montaigne

All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

C.S. Lewis