What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

Oliver Goldsmith

Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.

Soe Hok Gie

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

Bill Nighy

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

J. Donald Walters

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

Mark Twain

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

Origen

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Thomas Hobbes

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

Robert Rauschenberg

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Curtis Carlson

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Matthew Henry

Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably stemmed from the deep human sorrow or hellish frustration,the death of a loved one or a divorce and yes:jealousy.Heartache and impotence as the man-spring for making the unverifiable verifiable and for giving it face.How romantic,beautiful and especially useful pain and misery can be.

Esther Verhoef

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth

Gerald Vann