"Hold onto your innocence"
— Martina Mcbride

"Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind"
— Tim McGraw

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under."
— Ronald Reagan

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
— Ronald Reagan

"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
— Ronald Reagan

"As government expands, liberty contracts."
— Ronald Reagan

"Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas."
— Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
— Ronald Reagan

"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds would make it flicker because it would not give up."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder (The Long Winter)

"“I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.”"
— Robert E. Lee

"I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it."
— Robert E. Lee

"Duty is ours, consequences are God's."
— Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future."
— Corrie Ten Boom

"If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands."
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn

"That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life."
— Jesus Christ

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies."
— Ann Brashares

"Happiness lives in gratitude."
— Seventh Heaven

"Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world."
— Dolly Parton

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain! "
— Dolly Parton

"There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at."
— Johnny Cash

"There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her."
— Johnny Cash

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. "
— John Wayne

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
— John Wayne

"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

""You should read something else."
"Why would he have done that to him?"
"I don't know," she said.
"Do you ever feel like Job?"
She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes.
"Sometimes."
"But you haven't lost your faith?"
"No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.
"Is it because you think you might get better?"
"No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.""
— Nicholas Sparks

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."
— Nicholas Sparks (At First Sight)

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it"
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)

"I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

"Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

"The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over."
— Nicholas Sparks (Nights in Rodanthe)

"When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"I’ll never be lonely, even if I am alone, for I have a precious Savior who’ll come to take me home. But while I’m here, his servant I will be- with one foot on earth, and one in eternity. I’ll gather his crops to populate the land, and if I feel weary I’ll cling tighter to his hand."
— Melody Carlson