I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

St. Jerome

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it

Criss Jami

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I doubt love can do little else, if it cannot bring back people back from the dead.

James Potter

A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.

Jean-Baptiste Say

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Jackson Browne

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

James A. Garfield

There are some people who lie for the mere sake of lying.

Blaise Pascal

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

Barbara Hurd