Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Theresa

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Grenville Kleiser

The artist in me cries out for design.

Robert Frost

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

That what is true of business and politics is gloriously true of the professions, the arts and crafts, the sciences, the sports. That the best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

Lincoln Steffens

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Joseph Lancaster

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

P. J. O'Rourke

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

There comes a time when every good woman has to throw away her favorite book and find another one that has a captivating ending, more intriguing characters and a plot that would actually challenge her mind.

Shannon L. Alder