While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Helen Keller

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

William Frederick Book

The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea.

Christopher Harman

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us.

Pope Benedict XVI

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

Isabel Lucas

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read

Mark Twain

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

Leo Tolstoy

But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom.

Orson Scott Card

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson