The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Elaine Dundy

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. p.71Affection is taken as the image when God is represented as our Father; Eros, when Christ is represented as the Bridegroom of the Church. p.78The little pockets of early Christians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of the brethren and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society all around them. p.70Friendship is even, if you like, angelic. But man needs to be triply protected by humility if he is to eat the bread of angels without risk. p.87

C.S. Lewis

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Alan Cumming

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

Marlon Wayans

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Matthew Simpson

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

Toba Beta

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Diogenes Laërtius

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time.

Thomas J. Watson

Love is either like misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. Or like thunder storms, soaking you through, and striking you with the pain of lightning.

Taylor E. Bennet

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.

Christopher Pike