I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Aldous Huxley

Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Robert Benchley

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Terry Pratchett

Success is failure turned inside out.

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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

Yiddish Proverb

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

Simone Elkeles

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Daniel Defoe

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolateThat can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,And mitigate the gloom of Age?Religion bids the tempest cease,And, leads her to a port of peace;And on, the lonely pilot steersThrough the lapse of future years.

Thomas Haynes Bayly, "New Monthl

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

Victor Hugo

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou