Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

Martin Freeman

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: He trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

William Shakespeare

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Friedrich von Schiller

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Princess of Wales Diana

Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.

Yiddish Proverb

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits

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The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

Henry Louis Gates

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

Julian Lennon

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

Kurt Vonnegut

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

Marquis de Sade