We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Albert Einstein

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Whatever's born between us is ineffable, beyond adjective and allegory. I can create to rhythm within the measures of our narration. All poetry falls to disingenuous; every cadence is disjointed. These machines will never do us justice. . . .

Jake Wilson

La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.

John Quincy Adams

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Winston Churchill

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

GeorgesLouis Leclerc Buffon

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Chinese Proverb

Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.

John Green

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

Sofia Coppola

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Felix Frankfurter

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron