I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Mick Jagger

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

Linda Evans

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

Stevie Wonder

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Jane Fonda

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:And from the west,Where the sun, his day's work ended,Lingers as in content,There falls on the old, gray cityAn influence luminous and serene,A shining peace.

William Ernest Henley

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Earl Nightingale

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tiebreaking vote when you just can't decide what you should do next.

Stephen King

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

A. N. Wilson

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Betty Greene