WORLD BEST PHOTOS OF THE DAY

 
Obamas meet families of 9/11 victims. In pouring rain, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet relatives of those killed in the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks after a wreath-laying ceremony outside the building o

Balloons mark child rights milestone. Balloons with messages attached released by Palestinian children are seen in the sky during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the C...

Sinkhole swallows L.A. fire truck. A Los Angeles fireman looks under a fire truck stuck in a sinkhole on Sept. 8. Four firefighters escaped injury when the truck fell into the hole, which was caused by a burst water main. The fire tr...

Squirrel takes upside-down sip. A squirrel strains for a drop of water from a faucet next to the boat ramp at Craig Park in Tarpon Springs, Fla., on April 16. Jim Damaske / St. Petersburg Times via ZUMA Press 

 

Collision sparks fire on destroyer. A crew fights a fire raging from the bow of the Japanese navy destroyer Kurama after it collided with a South Korean container ship in the Kammon Straits in Fukuoka prefecture, south of Japan, on O... 

Gas dispute leaves Hungary chilled. Fifth-grader Bela Borsy, wearing his winter clothes indoors, peers through the frosty window of his classroom in Nagykallo, Hungary, on Jan. 9. A dispute between Russia and Ukraine over using Ukrai...

Michael Jackson remembered. The Jackson family gathers around Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael, during the public memorial service for him held July 7 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Jackson, 50, the "King of Pop," died June 25 a...

 

Construction worker rescues woman. A construction worker suspended from a crane rescues a woman who fell into the Des Moines River near downtown Des Moines, Iowa, on June 30. Mary Chind / The Des Moines Register

Car's impact sparks pole fire. Firefighters trying to rescue the driver of an overturned car that struck a utility pole look up at the electrical fire above them on Oct. 28 along Ohio 68 in Champaign County, near Urbana, Ohio. The dr...

Front-row seats for a fire. Helicopter pilots watch as a controlled fire burns on Mount McLean in western Canada. It was set in an attempt to reduce the amount of fuel for a wildfire burning on the mountain in Lillooet, British Colum...

Miracle landing on the Hudson. Passengers are rescued after a U.S. Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in New York on Jan. 15 after hitting geese. All 155 people on board survived, and the pilot, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberg...

World Best Photos Of The Day (Part 1)

Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
Edwin Louis Cole

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Alice Duer Miller

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Duer Miller

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

World Best Photos Of The Day (Part 2)

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal

Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth

Faith is not contrary to reason.
Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.
Sherwood Eddy