The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Noel Coward

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

Juvenal

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Kathleen Raine

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain, - the impalpable principle of light and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man - perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph! Surely it will never, on the contrary, be suffered to degenerate from man to fiend?No; I cannot believe that: I hold another creed: which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention; but in which I delight, and to which I cling: for it extends hope to all: it makes Eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last: with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, ch.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

William Feather, The Treasure of

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

William Faulkner

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Tobias G. Smollett

I'm not going to force you into anything you don't want. But I'm also not going to take a vow of chastity and pine away for you, or whatever the hell it is that men do in romance novels these days. I have needs. I'd rather satisfy them with you, but if you don't want me I suppose I'll just have to find someone else. Might take me a while, but I'll make do. I always have before.

Nenia Campbell