We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover

Michael Drayton

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

Carrie Underwood

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

Stephen Wolfram

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

William Penn

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Laurence J. Peter

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

Holly Madison

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

Albert Einstein

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Dwight D Eisenhower