If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it.

Arthur Seldon

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

Markus Zusak

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Edith Wharton

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

Elayne Boosler

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation

Friedrich Nietzsche

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Louisa May Alcott

I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small matters, which so many excellent persons consider necessary in the education of children. I think it monstrous to hold the source of inconceivable mercy and goodness perpetually up to them as an avenging and wrathful God who - making them in His wisdom children before they are men and women - is to punish them awfully for every little venial offence which is almost a necessary part of that stage of life.

Charles Dickens

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

Leni Riefenstahl

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Alexis Carrel

My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls.

Jennie Garth

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Leo Buscaglia