I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
Steve Vai
I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
Delta Burke
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi Picoult
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
Bo Bennett
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Richard M. DeVos
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde