In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Rollo May

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

Andrew Cuomo

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Paulo Coelho

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

George Bernard Shaw

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Flip Wilson

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

Ashley Greene

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Samuel Johnson

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

Eric Hoffer

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Margaret Mead