The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.

......he married a girl, he had no idea what the woman was going to be like. As soon as he got a glimpse he was running scared.

Stella turned to us. "One of us is going to have to swim it. Any volunteers?"Jamie shook his head. "Not it. Sharks, first of all, and second of all, sharks"- The Retribution of Mara Dyer

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.

You've got to make adjustments as you get older.

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.