Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

Carol P. Christ

Alas! the great world goes its way, And takes its truth from each new day; They do not quit, nor can retain, Far less consider it again.

Arthur Hugh Clough

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Bookes give no wisdom where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Robertson Davies

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Wayne Dyer

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Oscar Wilde

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Benjamin F. Fairless

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

Richard Dawkins

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Paul Wellstone

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

Thomas S. Monson

France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the loaves and fishes which arise out of war expenses, as for the chance of changing the Constitution

Thomas Jefferson