If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

John Gay

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Edmond de Goncourt

If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly

Martin Luther King Jr.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

Regina King

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Thomas Aquinas

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

Paul Ryan

Faith is power to believe and power to see...

Prentice Mulford

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike.

Lance Armstrong

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

David Livingstone

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Henry George