Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

James Thurber

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

Cassandra Clare

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Stephen King

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Blaise Pascal

God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation.

Mark Evans

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it.

Abraham Lincoln

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

David Zucker

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

Nicholas Sparks

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Phil Collins

I think about food all the time. It's my passion it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.

Cat Cora

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Richard D. Rosen

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

J. M. Barrie