The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Fran Lebowitz

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Grover Cleveland

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Thomas Fuller

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Karl Barth

When I listen to you, Godwhen I do what you ask me to,I am like a treeplanted by a river,a tree full of fruitwith leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)

Marie-Helene Delval

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Henry David Thoreau

I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.

Miranda Cosgrove

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

E. M. Forster

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Homer

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Malcolm Muggeridge