Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

John Enoch Powell

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Ernest Hemingway

My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.

William Shakespeare

Truth to me was dead, God had never lived, life was full of pain, and death was the end of life. As a young Atheist, I sincerely believed that man had created God to fill the gaps in knowledge that would never be spanned by experience, reason, or science. In 1983 the God who pursues those who deny him interrupted my existence, he captured my soul with raw love. Two decades later, God's tangible friendship still amazes me. To deny his existence I'd have to first deny my own.

Alicia Britt Chole

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Mary Roach

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

Avril Lavigne

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Thomas Kempis

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Donald Rumsfeld

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Zora Neale Hurston

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

Terry Pratchett

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell Clayton

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Steven Seagal