The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's funny to be a critic.

Leslie Fiedler

Therefore you can never lose hope--because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Cassandra Clare

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Mark Twain

That was the burden,' she mused, 'laid on me in the cradle; murmured by waves; breathed by restless elm trees; crooned by singing women; what we must rememeber; what we would forget.

Virginia Woolf

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

Walter Martin

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Louis L'Amour

'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.

William Shakespeare

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

Albert Guerard

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

Michel Houellebecq

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

John F. Kennedy

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Sagan