Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Samuel Johnson

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Deepak Chopra

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

Patricia Heaton

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

Robert Redford

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

John Major

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow

William Shakespeare

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

Jack Dee

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Robbie Coltrane

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Charles Dickens

We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance.

George Eliot

HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

Bill Watterson