The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness.

Dorothy Day

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Anthony de Mello

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

Toba Beta

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Count Basie

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

Smith Wigglesworth

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Muhammad Ali

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Jean Rostand

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

Hailee Steinfeld

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

Grover Cleveland

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'

Julie Andrews

I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other.

Shvaugn Craig