In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.

Erma Bombeck

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Nadine Gordimer

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

Horace Walpole

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Marlo Thomas

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

Suze Orman

On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay.

Rudyard Kipling, Mandalay

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Henry David Thoreau

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

John Locke

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Jonathan Edwards

[I]m Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.

Kahlil Gibran

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn

William Feather

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

Michael Mandelbaum