Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate, because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

George S. Patton

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Augustine Birrell

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Dave Eggers

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead

We have an incapacity of proof, insurmountable by all dogmatism. We have an idea of truth, invincible to all skepticism.

Blaise Pascal

Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.

Lynn Austin

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Mario Puzo

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.

Gerard de Marigny

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.

Doutzen Kroes

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Julianna Baggott

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.

Wendell Berry