Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Lee Atwater

For love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Light, colour, love - let me come under your spell. Life can be represented only by a lively kind of painting. There is clarity in passion.

Stefan Szczesny

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Anais Nin

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Tom Hanks

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

Alan Jackson

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

Lisa Marie Presley

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

George Eliot

She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

Jane Austen

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Hada Bejar

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

Muhammad Yunus

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri