"Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost."

“Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.”

“I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.”

“It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

“Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done.”

“Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.”

“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”

Source : "Fidel Castro survived 600 assassination attempts, officials say" by Patrick Oppmann, www.cnn.com. November 26, 2016.

“Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.”

Source : "When Good Fellows Get Together". Book by James O'Donnell Bennett, p. 147, 1908.

“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”