To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

Abraham Lincoln

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Charles Lamb

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

Robert A.F. Thurman

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t.

Source Unknown

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Juliana Hatfield

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Bianca Jagger

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

George H. W. Bush

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

John Ruskin

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Source Unknown

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce