To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Charles Dickens

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

Paul Kane

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Jos

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

Jodi Picoult

Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Ambrose Bierce

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues and it has not helped.

Timothy Murphy

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

Mickey Spillane

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Kahlil Gibran

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Joseph Conrad

Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede.

Terry Pratchett