I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life.

James Joyce

Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.

E. M. Forster

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

Source Unknown

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate

Thomas Jefferson

I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

Virginia Woolf

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

J. Paul Getty

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Ann Brashares

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Walter Winchell

The public must and will be served.

William Penn

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Sir Henry Taylor

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. Source unknown A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

Source Unknown

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf