Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

Don Karnage-he's one of my all-time favorites. He's so brash and so bold and so arrogant-and he just doesn't know what he's doing.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.