The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Maurice Strong

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

Nastassja Kinski

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

Iyanla Vanzant

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

Julie Benz

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. Proverbs 29:15

Bible

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Nnamdi Azikiwe

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

Stephen King