Beauty is a fragile gift.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Jos

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

Mark Twain

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

Charles M. Schwab

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Jodi Picoult

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.

W. Somerset Maugham

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Vance Packard

Sometimes, he said, I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.

Jack McDevitt

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Bible

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

Kim Cattrall

People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

Emma Forrest

I had perceived by experience, how that it was impossible to stablish the lay people in any truth, except the scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue, that they might see the process, order, and meaning of the text.

William Tyndale