Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Mary Astell

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Will Smith

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

Dean Koontz

Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.

Proverb

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

John Ruskin

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

John Clayton

For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

Valerie Jarrett

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

Camille Anna Paglia

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Nig

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Jean Paul