Richard Peck Quote

Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His...

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.