No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.

Charles Stanley

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.

Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Source Unknown

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

Valerie Simpson

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

Daniel Radcliffe

Athletes are very cool to me.

Regina King

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

Jodi Picoult

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion

Norman Angell

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Thaddeus Golas