If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

For the barbarians were not only at our gates but within our skins. We were our own wooden horses, each one of us full of our own doom. ....these fanatics or those, or crazies or yours; but the explosions burst out of our very own bodies. We were both the bombers and the bombs. The explosions were our own evil - no need to look for foriegn explanations, though there was and is evil beyond our frontiers as well as within. We have chopped away our own legs, we engineered our own fall. And now we can only weep, at the last, for what we were too enfeebled, too corrupt, too little, too contemptable to defend.

Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

George Eliot

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

John Barrymore

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Voltaire

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lawn as white as driven snow

William Shakespeare

In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

The faith I was born into formed me.

Huston Smith

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Francis Wright

Pain is part of the past. There isn't one of us who doesn't still carry childhood wounds. Some are more horrific than others, but no matter how painful your young memories are, there were also glorious moments that kept you alive, or you would not be here today.

Sarah Ban Breathnach