Contemplation

"Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." - Robert Browning

"Maggie and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,--when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial words, the lightest gestures, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent." - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) From The Mill on the Floss

"That man that has a tongue, I say, is no man if with his tongue he cannot win a woman." - William Shakespeare

"When a woman is deliberating with herself whom she shall choose of many near each other in other pretensions, certainly he of the best understanding is to be preferred." - Sir Richard Steele

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it." -- Rose Kennedy

"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." - Roy Croft

"Thou art to me a delicious torment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart." - Melanie Griffith

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie

"Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too." - Brittany Murphy

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night." - Bill Watterson

"We were not strong enough to drive out a half-million American troops, but that wasn't our aim. Our intention was to break the will of the American government to continue the war."

--North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, in a 1990 interview with historian Stanley Karnow. (Hedgehog)

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' ~ C. S. Lewis

Ron Howard about his acting and his wife, Cheryl: "Every once in a while, somebody asks me if I would be in something. But at a certain point my wife said, "We're raising four kids. If you're not pursuing acting as a career, please don't take jobs as a kind of lark. If you have a couple extra weeks, give them to us." I thought that was a really fair request."

Abraham Lincoln said, "If given the truth, they [the American people] can be depended upon to meet any national crisis...The great point is to bring them the real facts."

Benjamin Franklin said, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr