Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.

Jim Lampley

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

W. Somerset Maugham

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

Stephen King

It is in this darkness that I have found all light somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night.

Coco J. Ginger

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Elbert Hubbard

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Henry David Thoreau

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks ... It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

Samuel Adams

The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection.

Alexander Maclaren

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Harry S. Truman

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

John Lennon

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Dennis Brown