The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Terry Pratchett

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Ultimately love is everything.

M. Scott Peck

'Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he.

Robert Smith Surtees, Mr. Facey

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

Patton Oswalt

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Joyce Meyer

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great intellects are skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Mahavira

Nothing is more elegant than ready money!

Proverb

Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.

Pamela Aidan

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie