As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Samuel Butler

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

Clarence Darrow

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Justice is the truth in action.

Joseph Joubert

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

Lisa Kleypas

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

David Brin

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

Kevin Eubanks

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Orson Scott Card

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

John D. Rockefeller

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.

Ronald Harwood

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

James G. Cozzens

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

Star Jones