A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Pat Buckley

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.

Tim O'Brien

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Robin Wasserman

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.

Orson Scott Card

Everything about riding a bicycle compels you towards beauty.

BikeSnobNYC

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.

Blaise Pascal

Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.

Orson Scott Card

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivan Illich

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Jean de la Bruyere