What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.

William Dean Howells

There is in every village a torch - the teacher:and an extinguisher - the clergyman.

Victor Hugo

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

Quentin Crisp

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clemenceau

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

When they start the game, they don't yell, Work ball. They say, Play ball.

Willie Stargell

I love the stars.Because they can't say anything.I love the stars.Because they do not judge anyone.

Natsuki Takaya

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph Blum

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

Orson Scott Card

What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.

Zhang Jie

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Francis Ford Coppola