I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

Jennifer Garner

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

Frank McCourt

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Nanci Griffith

I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong.

Dorothy H. Rath

It's strange, isn't it, how you never know you're living the best time of your life at the moment you're living it? If you could appreciate, at that instant, that this is it, maybe you'd make certain your mind imprinted every detail of the sights, smells, sounds and sensations. Then again, maybe knowing that life will only get duller, sadder, less hopeful afterward would inject melancholy into that moment. You'd miss life's peak experience by mourning it before it passes. So perhaps it's best not to know.

Anita Bartholomew

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

George Bernard Shaw

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Voltaire

Remote and ineffectual don.

Hilaire Belloc

Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.

Andy Webster

In the spring of life, in the flower of youth, Everything is bright and new.In the summer of life, Time of growth and change, Each day brings new dreams to pursue.In the autumn of life,

C.A. Schlea, The Fifth Season

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.

Phyllis McGinley