God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eye

For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a man be safe, if it be not in his house?

Sir Edward Coke

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Elvis Costello

She knew... everything. She had no words for what she knew. The pause became anticipatory silence. There were no words she could use for the reality and truth and understanding she had been given.

Sheri S. Tepper

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Roland Joffe

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Erwin Chargaff

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Theresa

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Oscar Niemeyer

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Kong Fu Zi

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Baruch Spinoza