All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

Make a written list of everything you love.

Rhonda Byrne

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

Source Unknown

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

A. C. Benson, The Upton Letters

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Roger McGuinn

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

John Lennon

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Jackie Kennedy

I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me.

James Wood

Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or

Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (1

Suffering is the true cement of love

Paul Sabatier

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus

It is the story I hoped to tell. It is the story that lies around the edges of the photograph, or at the end of the newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news come toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?

Sarah Blake

Rest, Logan said. Both of you. His caressing gaze moved over his wife and infant daughter.I'll watch over you.Love me? Madeline asked with a faint smile, and yawned again.It used to be love. He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. Now there's no word for it.You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.I was wrong, he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. I've discovered it's my onlystrength.Madeline fell asleep with a smile still on her lips, her hand curled around his.

Lisa Kleypas