If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then...

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the...

She was his dawn of bliss He was her dusk of wounds,Each day they came up to See and touch They couldn't stay for long But they looked perfect together ~

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

The grace of God is joyous gladness.

Play to win, not "not to lose".

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but the rather the pain that you earn with it. Remember though that the ones who brave the pain are eternally bound in Cupid's chain. It is th...

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

One must not trifle with love.