I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Paul Gauguin

The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.

Steve Maraboli

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

John Burroughs

Science, as an institution, cannot be independent of human passions.

Carlos Gershenson

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

Herbert Marcuse

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

Rob McKenna

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Hannah Arendt

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Rita Mae Brown

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

Lev Grossman

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

Michelle Williams

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Elizabeth Gilbert