Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Thomas Hooker

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Arthur Ashe

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

David Gest

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Charlie Chaplin

Eyes shows lies.

Toba Beta

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

Meister Eckhart

When the chips are down and the decisions are made as to who the candidates will be, then the 11th commandment prevails and everybody goes to work, and that is: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.

Ronald Reagan

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

Jerome K. Jerome

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Tim Foley

In literature imitations do not imitate

Mark Twain

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Doris Lessing