Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

No town can hope prosperity and trade, unless the press shall vigorously aid.

God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

Nothing that truly matters Can ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul.