Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said

Voltaire

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Bob Dylan

I don't own a car.

Shepard Smith

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

John Howard

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

Robert Herrick

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

It's very cool to be able to say that my first real film was 'Footloose' and my second film I got to star alongside Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Julianne Hough

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

Georges Simenon

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Tri

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein