“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” (Chemist and writer Dr. O. A. Battista, quoted in Our Daily Bread)
“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the Heaven and say there is no God.” (Abraham Lincoln, quoted in The Berean Call)
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” (James Baldwin)
“To try to be better is to be better.” (Charlotte Cushion, quoted in Red Simple)
“You have enemies. Good. That means you’ve stood up for something in your life.” (Winston Churchill)
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C’mon it’s stupid.” (Ray Bradbury, quoted in The Week)
“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” (Abigail Van Buren, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald)
“Critics are men who watch the battle from a high place, then come down and shoot the survivors.” (Ernest Hemingway, quoted in TheAwl.com)
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. One one thing endures, and that is character.” (Horace Greeley, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal)
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.” (William Jennings Bryan, quoted in United Press International)
