Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

George Orwell

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Abu Bakr

I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I keptlocking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 footstepladder with a coathanger.

Steven Wright

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

Paul Gauguin

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

To those who will see, the world waits.

Libba Bray

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Joanne Woodward

Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison