Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Mengtse)

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Colleen McCullough

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

David Horowitz

I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.

Tahereh Mafi

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Jaclyn Smith

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber

Samuel Johnson

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Ernest Renan

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Mason Cooley

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

Bob Graham

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

Julio Iglesias

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin