The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Samuel Smiles

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

George Borrow

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Ursula K. LeGuin

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Ellen DeGeneres

When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?

Wolf and Page

Are you ready for the God that dwells in your heart ?

Roxana Jones

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

Alveda King

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

Albert Einstein

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

Brendan Fehr

Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot.

Terry Pratchett