In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Ed Hays

I can't stop thinking like this.

Steven Wright

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

Carl Lewis

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

Jose Joaquin Olmedo

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.

Cassandra Clare

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Edward A. Navajo

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

William Shakespeare

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

will.i.am

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.

John Updike

As for Doing-good,that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agreewith my constitution. Probably I should not consciously and deliberatelyforsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands ofme, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a likebut infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preservesit.

Henry David Thoreau