The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

Nora Roberts

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.

James Laughlin

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Ronald Reagan

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Walter Bagehot

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

Wayne Gretzky

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Joseph Addison

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Matthew Arnold

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon

Just an observation: it is impossible to be both grateful and depressed. Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

Steve Maraboli

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Huey Newton

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

George H. W. Bush

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis