Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

Plato

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.

Ayn Rand

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Plato

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Michel Foucault

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Ronnie James Dio

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

Karl Lehmann

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.this is commonly attributed to Abraham Lincoln or Shearson Lehman (American Express) or anon.

Anon.

Grace under pressure

Ernest Hemingway

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Jean Francois Regnard

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Orson Scott Card

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

Josh Billings