I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Jodi Picoult

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Voltaire

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Chinese Proverb

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Stephen Hawking

I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one ?

Albert Einstein

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

Sonny Bono

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Fanny Burney

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

Leon Henderson

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

Joseph Lancaster

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Stephen King

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.

Evanna Lynch

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb