You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Peace Pilgrim

Remembrance of things past.

William Shakespeare

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

E.A. Bucchianeri

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

Mahalia Jackson

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality

George Eliot

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Matthew Prior

Persecution is precious because it reveal whether a person lives with real faith.

Leo Tolstoy

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

Selma Blair

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

E. M. Forster

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Orison Swett Marden