Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Frank B. Kellogg

For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!

William Shakespeare

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

Paul Merton

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

Jennifer Saunders

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

Michael Cunningham

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Georges Bataille

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

Jewel

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Blaise Pascal

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.

Michael Cunningham

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Robert A. Heinlein