Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

Anyone young can learn something useful from someone with experience.

Al Capp

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Criss Angel

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

E. M. Cioran

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Michael Ende

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Henry David Thoreau

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

Anonymous

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (How to Write with Style. Essay, 1985)

Kurt Vonnegut

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Peter Lewis Allen

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale