In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

E. Stanley Jones

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

Jacob Lusk

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

Steve Maraboli

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Leo Tolstoy

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Don DeLillo

Priority is a function of context.

Stephen Covey

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Irving Howe

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