It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

Huston Smith

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Elbert Hubbard

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Source Unknown

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Don Marquis

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Nikki Giovanni

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

George Bernard Shaw

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Samuel Johnson

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Stephen Gardiner

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Peter Singer

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Desmond Morris

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

Jodi Picoult