Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Georges Bernanos

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Eudora Welty

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Henry Watton

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly.

Harold Wallace Ross

In art the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Mark Twain

...And we pray, not for newearth or heaven, but to be quietin heart, and in eye clear.What we need is here.

Wendell Berry

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Edward Young

What a dog I got. His favorite bone is in my arm!

Rodney Dangerfield

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle