An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

Cassandra Clare

The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

Source Unknown

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat's main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when Abu Nidal asked me if I would like to be trained in one of his camps. No thanks, I explained. From this awkward beginning there was a further decline. I was then asked if I knew Said Hammami, the envoy of the PLO in London. I did in fact know him. He was a brave and decent man, who in a series of articles in the London had floated the first-ever trial balloon for a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. 'Well tell him he is a traitor,' barked my host. 'And tell him we have only one way with those who betray us.' The rest of the interview passed as so many Middle Eastern interviews do: too many small cups of coffee served with too much fuss; too many unemployed heavies standing about with nothing to do and nobody to do it with; too much ugly furniture, too many too-bright electric lights; and much too much . The only political fact I could winnow, from Abu Nidal's vainglorious claims to control X number of 'fighters' in Y number of countries, was that he admired the People's Republic of China for not recognizing the State of Israel. I forget how I got out of his office.

Christopher Hitchens

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

Seamus Heaney

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Muhammad Yunus

Good, better, best - never let it rest - till your good is better - and your better best.http://www.furphys.com.au/legend/water-cart.html

John Furphy, Inscription on the

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Martina Navratilova

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

J.A. Konrath

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Plato