Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

Cornel West

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

G. K. Chesterton

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died

Mark Twain

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing greater than love; it is stronger than any evil, any darkness. Show me the way, Jesus!Love is the answer. If we love one another, then we need not fear anything else. Love is everything.

Cecilia Galante

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

Jodi Picoult

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Hank Aaron

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Orison Swett Marden

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Elbert Hubbard