If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

George Herbert

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

George Santayana

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

Elizabeth Gilbert

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Gore Vidal

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Edward Young

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

Brian Greene

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Richard Holloway

You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.

Martin Luther