Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.

Rebecca Solnit

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

Dee Dee Myers

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

Holly Black

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

David Wilkerson

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

Elias Hicks

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.

Victor Hugo

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Marcus Aurelius