You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Lynn Harold Hough

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

C.S. Lewis

Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God?s universal laws you will always receive it!

Bob Smith

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Maggie Gallagher

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Sacks

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Danish proverb

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Oscar Wilde

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Francois Truffaut

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Yiddish Proverb

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Joseph Stowell