How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Aldous Huxley

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

Barack Obama

The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.

General George Catlett Marshall,

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Liv Tyler

Action is transitory, a step, a blow,The motion of a muscle, this way or that,'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

William Wordsworth, The Borderer

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Niels Bohr

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Aldous Huxley

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

Karen Russell

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

Neal A. Maxwell

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

Judith Moore

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

Edwin Louis Cole

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

Jodi Picoult