A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent Van Gogh

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

William Penn

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

Garth Brooks

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Natalie Goldberg

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

Charlie Trotter

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated... To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Ellen Glasgow

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

Cath Crowley