What is a rebel? A man who says no.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home-- . . . . Will not an Inn his cares beguile, Where on each face he sees a smile?

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

What if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

The fashion of the day has been to attempt to convert by insisting on conversion; to exhort men to be converted; to tell them to be sure they look at Christ instead of simply holding up Christ; to tell them to have faith rather than to supply its object; to lead them to work up their minds, instead of impressing upon them the thought of Him who can savingly work in them; to bid them to be sure their faith is justifying, that it is not dead, formal, self-righteous, or merely moral, instead of delineating Him whose image, fully delineated, destroys deadness, formality, self-righteousness; to rely on words, vehemence, eloquence, and the like, rather than to aim at conveying the one great idea, whether in words or not.

The Pen is mightier than the sword.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. -Deepak Chopra.

talk 'till your blue in the face.

People never say, "It's only a game", when they're winning.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

The lyric sound of laughter Fills all the April hills The joy-song of the crocus, The mirth of daffodils.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.