Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

Tim McGraw

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Morihei Ueshiba

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

W. H. Auden

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

Beauty is the gift of God.

Aristotle

[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Plato

The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

Donald Knuth

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

William Shakespeare

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.

Henry Ward Beecher

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

Leslie Banks

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau