Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

Samuel Johnson

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

Terry Pratchett

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

William Shakespeare

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Greil Marcus

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Jessica Savitch

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question isn't 'who is going to let me'; it's 'who is going to stop me'.

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

A city life for me!

Thomas Beecham

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

John Muir

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Thomas Carlyle

Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

Sarah Dessen

A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.

M.J. Chrisman