We are the people our parents warned us about.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Jean de la Bruyere

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.

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Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it well?My Mother.

Anon.

Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

Cobi Jones

Nie mo?na zrozumie? ani ?ycia jednostki, ani ?ycia spo?ecze?stwa, nie odnosz?c jednego do drugiego.

Charles Wright Mills

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Paulo Coelho

Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

Bertrand Russell

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

Henry Miller

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

Barack Obama

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buc

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Herman Hesse

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese