All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Frederick W. Faber

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Dorothy Parker

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

Jerry Gillies

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

Jennifer Ellison

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Henry L. Doherty

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Victor Hugo

Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in His universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Ann Druyan

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

Mahatma Gandhi