Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Henry David Thoreau

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

David Attenborough

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Johann von Goethe

The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.

Italian Proverb

Americans. They came right out with things. Hitchens family lore related the tale of how once, when I was but a toddler, my parents were passing with me through an airport and ran into some Yanks. 'Real cute kid,' said these big and brash people without troubling to make a formal introduction. They insisted on photographing me and, before breaking off to resume their American lives, pressed into my dimpled fist a signed dollar bill in token of my cuteness. This story was often told (I expect that Yvonne and the Commander had been to an airport together perhaps three times in their lives) and always with a note of condescension. That was Americans for you: wanting to be friendly all right, but so loud, and inclined to flash the cash.

Christopher Hitchens

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

Mark Miller

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

Terry Pratchett

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

May V. Smith

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

Mario Batali

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

John Philip Sousa

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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