When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

Jane Austen

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Dale Carnegie

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

Stephen King

When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.

Richard A. Nelson

However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were. And so ended his affection, said Elizabeth impatiently. There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

Jane Austen

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Joseph Addison

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Jean de la Bruyere

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Barack Obama

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

M Scott Peck

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

Mercedes Ruehl

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.paraphrased as: Behind every great fortune there is a crime

Honore de Balzac, Father Goriot

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.

Woody Allen