The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Tim O'Brien

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

E. M. Forster

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

Jacques Lacan

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

Emmanuelle Beart

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

Steve Wynn

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

David Herbert Lawrence

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

C.S. Lewis

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Clarence Darrow

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Sir William Temple