The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

John Flavel

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

George Weinberg

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

T. D. Jakes

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

Barbara Boxer

For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Rebecca West

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Virginia Woolf

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

Thomas Fuller

And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?

Sir William Watson

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

H. L. Mencken

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion

Samuel Johnson