Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (Lo

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Al Capone

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

Frank Carson

I make no vows. I take my chance.... It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

George Bernard Shaw

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

Keren Ann

It's all positive energy from me, man.

Swizz Beatz

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

Source Unknown

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Ralph J. Cudworth

The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

Thomas Jefferson

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau