When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Thornton Wilder

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Alexandre Vinet

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

Ben Carson

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Kurt Vonnegut

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

Source Unknown

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Terry Pratchett

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

Andrew Shue

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Ted Danson

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

Todd Akin