I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

John Tillotson

Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Theodor Adorno

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

W. Somerset Maugham

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Nina Dobrev

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When the legends die, the dreams end there is no more greatness.

Tecumseh

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

Robert Sternberg

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Saint Francis of Assisi

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Oscar Wilde

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

Tom Walsh