What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Meister Eckhart

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

Lionel Messi

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

Shelby Foote

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

Gary Bauer

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Paul Auster

In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.

Plato

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Aristotle

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

Jean-Yves Leloup

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

Oscar Wilde

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error

Mahatma Gandhi