You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles de Lint

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Jupiter Hammon

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Charles R. Swindoll

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Jean Cocteau

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.

Barbara Boxer

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

W. Clement Stone

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

Walt Whitman

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Plato

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

John Jay Chapman

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Matthew Arnold

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Source Unknown

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde