The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

English Proverb

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Alejo Carpentier

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Ella Maillart

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Barbara Ehrenreich

When you return to your homes rise up to the height of a generation of men worthy of a free Government, and we will carry out the great work we have commenced. I return to you my sincere thanks, soldiers, for the honor you have done me this afternoon.

Abraham Lincoln

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Edmund Spenser

An executive is someone who talks with visitors so the other employees can get their work done.

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Don Marquis

My religion lies in my composition.

John Philip Sousa

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

David Douglass

Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe