It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.

Moli

To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Marilyn French

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.

Ellen Glasgow

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Georges Clemenceau

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Jonathan Sacks

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

Jeffrey Archer

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Ambrose Bierce

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Elbert Hubbard

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato

... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske