To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Dr. C. E. Welch

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Jane Austen

Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me.

Kate Chisman

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Anthony Powell

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

Steven Wright

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

John Berger

Cosmic Ordering is neither a religion nor an elaborate program. You have everything within you to succeed: right attitude and right intentions.

Stephen Richards

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.

Norm Crosby

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Luciano Pavarotti

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter