Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

Jeremy Sisto

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

In the only sense that matters the surprise works as well the twentieth time as the first. It is the quality of unexpectedness, not the fact that delights us. It is even better the second time. Knowing that the 'surprise' is coming we can now fully relish the fact that this path through the shrubbery doesn't look as if it were suddenly going to bring us out on the edge of the cliff. So in literature. We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we are leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness. The children understand this well when they ask for the same story over and over again, and in the same words. They want to have again the 'surprise' of discovering that what seemed Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother is really the wolf. It is better when you know it is coming: free from the shock of actual surprise you can attend better to the intrinsic surprisingness of the peripeteia.

C.S. Lewis

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting

Mark Gorman

No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.

Hitopadesa

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh Ardele

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley