How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Neil Gaiman

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

Bob Graham

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

J. G. Ballard

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Mahatma Gandhi

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

Suze Orman

The body is a sacred garment: it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honour, and with joy and with fear as well. But always, though, with blessing.

Martha Graham

I would no longer see barricades. Stumbling blocks would now be seen as stepping stones to something better.

Christine Comaford

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Eric Hoffer

She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She'd fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She'd really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She'd have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow - no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

Joy Williams

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

Gary Bauer