Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.

J.K. Rowling

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

Shaquille O'Neal

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Sri Ramakrishna

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Samuel Pepys

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

Samuel Johnson

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Walt Disney

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

Bernard Mandeville

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

James Russell Lowell

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

Kris Allen

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Johan Huizinga