Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done.

José Saramago

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Billy Graham

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

George Orwell

To hate fatigues.

Jean Rostand

I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave

Andrew Fletcher, WorksLetters to

My only hope lies in my despair.

Jean Racine

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

James Thurber

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a fa?ade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Julie Bowen

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.

Steve Maraboli

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Amy Grant