The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Ezra Pound

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Here again we come up against what I have called the intolerable compliment. Over a sketch made idly to amuse a child, an artist may not take much trouble: he may be content to let it go even though it is not exactly as he meant it to be. But over the great picture of his life the work which he loves, though in a different fashion, as intensely as a man loves a woman or a mother a child he will take endless trouble and would doubtless, thereby give endless trouble to the picture if it were sentient. One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumb-nail sketch whose making was over in a minute. In the same way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

C.S. Lewis

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Robert Conklin

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

James Baker

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Carol P. Christ

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Leonard Barnes

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

Bethenny Frankel

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. In a world that has long been terrorized by fratricidal Sky-God religions, the ascendance of Buddhism would surely be a welcome development.

Sam Harris