I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion.

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

Thomas Carlyle

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

John D. Rockefeller

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

Warren Beatty

There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.

Richard Marek

If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.

Bill Hybels

Cause you know my joke is that I love her (Oprah Winfrey) but she thinks she's Jesus? And when she gets a paper cut she's like Oh, stigmata?. No, Oprah. Get off the cross and do your show!

Kathy Griffin

Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid.

Tom Kitt

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When You learn, TEACH. When you get, GIVE.

Maya Angelou

'Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. 'What you mean?' Sugar said,...'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.''Just smile? Smile at what? At who?''Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having.

Bernice McFadden

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Oliver Wendell Holmes