I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

Ouida

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

Raymond E. Feist

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Muhammad Yunus

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

Jamie Oliver

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Trofim Lysenko

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bertrand Russell

I don't fake relationships, vibes, or anything with people. I just keep it real, and some people think I have a cold heart for that.

Lil Skies

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Bertrand Russell

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Charles Dickens

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)