Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

Frank R. Wolf

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Mary Webb

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Pierre De Beaumarchais

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

John Conyers

A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.

Michel de Montaigne

If debates about beauty in nineteenth-centuryFrance were ?erce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. Thiswas a world of political revolutions, of social reformism, of belief inprogress and human perfectibility. Why was it that beauty mattered somuch in such a world?.

Elizabeth Prettejohn

Participate in your own dreams, don't just say what you want or complain about what you don't have.

Steve Maraboli

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Paulo Coelho

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Anita Diament

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

Ron Wyden

There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

Stephenie Meyer

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon