Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
Billy Graham

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
Michael Jackson

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
James Dean

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison