Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. Proverbs 29:8

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Franz Kafka

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Flip Wilson

The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Dalai Lama XIV

Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.

Paulo Coelho

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Halle Berry

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Thomas Aquinas

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Michelangelo

I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research.

Albert Einstein

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Victor Hugo

I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in its weigh,My checker tolled me sew.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

William Golding, Rough Magic Lec

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

William Shakespeare