The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

Taylor Lautner

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Peter Marshall

You have to choose your future regrets.

Christopher Hitchens

I have condemned Khomeini's fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie as a breach of international relations and as an assault on Islam as we know it in the era of apostasy. I believe that the wrong done by Khomeini towards Islam and the Muslims is no less than that done by the author himself. As regards freedom of expression, I have said that it must be considered sacred and that thought can only be corrected by counter-thought. During the debate, I supported the boycott of the book as a means of maintaining social peace, granted that such a decision would not be used as a pretext to constrain thought.

Naguib Mahfouz, AlAhram, March 2

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Aristotle

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Andrew Granatelli

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

James J. Corbett

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Queen Elizabeth II

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

Stephen Jay Gould

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Sigmund Freud

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

Ernest Hemingway