The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

Nathaniel Branden

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Ben Okri

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Jim Costa

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

Lisa Scottoline

Your greatest path of influence is love.

Mollie Marti

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

John Berger

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

Richard Baker

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor

Samuel Johnson

I am a part of everything that I have read.

John Kieran

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Charles Kuralt

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

David Wilkerson

He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.

Edith Wharton