If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

this is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon.

John Green

I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

David Livingstone

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

Louis de Bernieres

There is a form that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter-loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and is totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the artless heart of child or man, without egoism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

William Osler

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

Mel Brooks

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Alan Bennett

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Saul Landau

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Sappho

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

Tim Allen

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

Proverb