While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

Travis Barker

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Adlai Stevenson

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flowerBut only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing Gold can stay.

Robert Frost

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Bill Bryson

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

Gabriel Byrne

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.

C. JoyBell C.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

William Butler Yeats