There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. .

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Though I say't that should not say't.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.

When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

sink a shot ( basketball cliche ).

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.