A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.

Noah Porter

We celebrate beauty in life and all its possibility so we open it up for others and at the same time for ourselves.

Jay Woodman

And even if you hate her, can't stand her, even if she's ruining your life, there's something about her, some romance, some power. She's absolutely herself. No matter how hard you try, you'll never get to her. And when she dies, the world will be flat, too simple, reasonable, fair.

Mona Simpson

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Taylor Swift

I really do love football.

Ricky Williams

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

Daniel Clowes

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

Dwight L. Moody

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Raymond Carver

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Billy Graham