It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

Mortimer Adler

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Johnny Carson

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Lukas Foss

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Billy Graham

I see music as fluid architecture.

Joni Mitchell

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Holly Near

When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn't believe it. Not just because I didn't want it to be true, but because you weren't anything like him. I've never thought you're anything like him. But you are. You are.

Cassandra Clare

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

Lauren Oliver

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Ellen Key

a life without investigation is not worth living

Plato