A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.

Steven Wright

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

Tim Allen

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

Paulo Coelho

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

Steve Maraboli

the materialist conception of history.

Christopher Hitchens

Use your energy to be a light to brighten humanity...not a shadow that will darken it!

Timothy Pina

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Louis Aragon

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

Michael Clarke Duncan

There is a distinct difference between the ability to create life and the innate need to protect it; to cherish it. The life you've created is the one being you love most in the universe, and that intense love evolves into something that goes far beyond a sense of duty. It is instinct; pure and undeniable. As a direct result, one must neglect all else to preserve it. Even those we have claimed to love before.

Jamie McGuire

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Lec

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Noah Webster