Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

John Greenleaf Whittier

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is itself to succumb to the violence of our times. Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Anwar ElSadat

when we really connect with who God is we will find He is better than anything we could ever imagine

Shelley Hitz

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

Kristin Scott Thomas

We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

If oppurtunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

Henry Ford

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down.

Julian Barnes