When a small child... I thought that success spelled…

As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent…

— Brian Williams

Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands…

— Nicholas Sparks

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

— Chad Hurley

Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life.…

— Robert Fulghum

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or…

— Rowan Williams

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that…

— Harlan Ellison

“Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other—and wander together for…

— Jostein Gaarder

Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of…

— Paul Celan

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life.…

— Anonymous

When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the…

— Bertrand Russell

There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful…

— Kate Chopin

It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the…

— Hans Børli

You've been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its size, shape,…

— Wayne Dyer

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in…

— Viktor E. Frankl