I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

A. W. Tozer

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Pat Oliphant

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Mark Twain

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Carl Jung

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

Jodi Picoult

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

Aldous Huxley

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Harold Bloom

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

Paulo Coelho

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

Billy Wilder

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Elizabeth Smart

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.

Scottish Proverb