I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

William Butler Yeats

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live.

Leo Tolstoy

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

John Green

Health is the requisite after morality

Thomas Jefferson

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Anne Lamott

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Calvin Coolidge

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Khalil Gibran

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences

Bertrand Russell

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science

Gary Zukav

I know that my race must change.

Chief Joseph

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

W. Somerset Maugham