The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

The universe does not work in phrases

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.