But you're dead,' said Harry.'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.'Then... am I dead too?''Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, I am suffering, than to say, This landscape is ugly.

Simone Weil

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Toni Morrison

I was not judged or condemned by God, because Jesus was judged and condemned in my place. So I will not judge or condemn anyone else. Let truth do whatever it does, but Christians must remember, condemnation is what we are delivered from as believers.

Lacey Sturm

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility

Thomas Jefferson

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

W. Wirt

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Louisa May Alcott

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Otto von Bismarck

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.

Gerhard Kocher

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina G. Rossetti

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

Poppy Z. Brite