There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.

T.L. Rese

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Horace

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

Alma Gluck

Patience is the art of hoping.

Luc De Clapiers

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.

Paul Martin

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

Douglas Adams

I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

Katy Perry

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne, Meditation XVII from

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.

Source Unknown

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

Ted Nugent