No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Isaac Asimov

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

Paul Haggis

This isn't your average book, it's pure gold: . Explains everything you need to know about girls. IF only I'd had this last year I'd have known exactly how to get rid of Lavender and I would've known how to get going with... Well Fred and George gave me a copy, and I've learned a lot. You'd be surprised, it's not all about wandwork, either.

J.K. Rowling

Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota.Lat: Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away.

Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, "Omni

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

George Jean Nathan

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

Leonard Ravenhill

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley

Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

John Thorn

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Dale Dauten

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Emile M. Cioran

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

Neale Donald Walsch