Our ideals are our better selves.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

Ransom perceived that he had never before seen anything but half-hearted and uneasy attempts at evil. This creature was whole-hearted. The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence.

C.S. Lewis

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

Kate Forsyth

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Phyllis Diller

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Ivan Illich

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

Jeff Bezos

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.

Suze Orman

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Lord Lew Grade

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

J. A. Spender

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Roland Barthes

This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

Kurt Vonnegut