Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Herodotus

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Byron

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Ramsey Clark

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.

Anon.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Barack Obama

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Amelia Earhart

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. Acts 26:24

Bible

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

Jay-Z

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Simone Weil

Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.How Love burns through the Putting in the SeedOn through the watching for that early birthWhen, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,The sturdy seedling with arched body comesShouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

Robert Frost, Putting in the See