Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

George Eliot

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

Lillian Gish

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

Robert Henri

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

Billy Wilder

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

Marilyn Manson

His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his simple plan, to have with clergymen to do as little as a Christian can.

Sir Francis Doyle

Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.

Mindy Starns Clark

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.

Paul Gauguin

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Jean de la Bruyere

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

John Lennon