What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Laurence Leamer

With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Sojourner Truth

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift -- which is why they call it the present.

Bill Keane

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Leon Battista Alberti

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

David M. Heath

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.

Mark Twain

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Margaret Oliphant

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther