But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

Tyler Perry

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

Christopher Dawson

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

Cat Deeley

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Bill Richardson

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

Tommy Cooper

The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

Sigmund Freud

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Mark Twain

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

Mark Twain