Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Jane Austen

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

John Dryden

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

Jane Austen

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

Taylor Swift

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

Newt Gingrich

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

Warren Beatty

And she (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Toni Morrison

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself

Friedrich Nietzsche