Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

George Eliot

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

Raymond Chandler

Hope is a very thin diet.

Thomas Shadwell

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

Grant us a common faith that man shall know bread and peacethat he shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do his best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl S. Buck

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus