And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Denis Diderot

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

E. M. Cioran

Wut's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

James Russell Lowell

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

Laura Miller

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

Wallace Stevens, Adagia

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Samuel Johnson

It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?

Richard Dawkins, Science, Delusi

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism

George Orwell

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Marcus Aurelius

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld