Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

The understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

Michael Ignatieff

Everything you go through grows you.

Robert Tew

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

Dennis Hastert

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

Joseph Brodsky

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

Richard Dawkins

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Francis Bacon

You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

George Bernard Shaw

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

Neil Gaiman

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nelson Mandela

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Victor Hugo

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Virginia Woolf