He is rich who owes nothing.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Orson Scott Card

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

George Bernard Shaw

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

David Mamet

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

Marguerite Young

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

Alberto Moravia

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Ellen G. White

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Gittel Hudnick

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

Zoe Saldana

Play needs direction as well as work.

Elbert Hubbard

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Benjamin Haydon

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

Caroline Green