Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Doug Coupland

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

Mother Theresa

Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Charles Dickens

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

J. B. Priestley

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Archie Bunker

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

Albert Einstein

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Angela Davis

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Orson Scott Card

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

Charles R. Swindoll

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Robert Graves