No pillows so soft as God's Promise.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Mark Twain

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

Natalie Massenet

with his customary crooked smile, are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Cassandra Clare

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Isaac Asimov

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

William Shakespeare

I start where the last man left off.

Thomas Alva Edison

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

Gail Simmons

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

Yannick Noah

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

Donald Miller

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Josh Billings

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

James C. Humes