michelle leslie

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal. ~Abraham Lincoln



America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. ~James Michener



In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens



The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. ~Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849



Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. ~Author Unknown



There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart



Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain



That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ~Adlai Stevenson



More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society



Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan



Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~Gene Fowler



Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale



What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret



Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~Albert Einstein



The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain



Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. ~Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651



Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear



The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. ~E.B. White, "Hot Weather," One Man's Meat, 1944