As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Bruce Barton

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Marilyn Monroe

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Confucius

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.

David Cronenberg

He smiled. He liked to imagine that she saw the beauty, that she could think outside the well-worn tracks of her countrymen, find something to like about this unsophisticated place. Because that just might mean she could find something to like about him.

Kim Wilkins

The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

Christina Rossetti

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Samuel Johnson

More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.

Deb Caletti

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Alfred A. Montapert