The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Michael Musto

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

Joan Didion

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

Duane Chapman

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

Steve Maraboli

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feelThe wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

Neil Gaiman

I know certain truths about life.

Dana Reinhardt

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

Arthur Holly Compton

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Honore de Balzac

I start where the last man left off.

Thomas Alva Edison

My father was in the First World War.

Doris Lessing