He who praises every body, praises nobody.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Seamus Heaney

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday I'm learning so much from her.

Joanne Woodward

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day sp

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

Jennifer Aniston

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Vaclav Havel

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety

Samuel Johnson

Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.

Italian Proverb

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as

Thomas Carlyle

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

E. M. Cioran

...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...

Ann Patchett