She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Sir Thomas Browne

Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.

Criss Jami

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

Source Unknown

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

H. L. Mencken, 1941

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

Anna Quindlen

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Samuel Johnson

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Sigmund Z. Engel

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Someday is not a day of the week.

Source Unknown

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Charles Stanley

Totally love Him who gave Himself totally out of love for you.

St. Clare of Assisi