No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

G. Gordon Liddy

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Maya Angelou

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

Cheryl Hines

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

Lena Dunham

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

John Burroughs

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

W. Somerset Maugham

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

Gary Miller

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Emma Bonino

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

June Allyson

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid