The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Victor Hugo

Presents, I often say, endear absents.

Charles Lamb

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Doug Coupland

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Willem de Kooning

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

Samuel Adams

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Leopold Von SacherMasoch

Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.

Source Unknown

Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in a divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

Meister Eckhart

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

Luke Ford

Isn't it strange that all life can pretty much end, but the universe goes on as it is? No one else exists, but the moon keeps shining and the stars keep falling.

Isabella Olivia Ellis

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Helen Reddy

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius