He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.

Sloth is the key to poverty.

Proverb

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

John Green

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

James R. Adams

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.

John Green

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

Lloyd Alexander

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Publilius Syrus

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

Melissa Etheridge

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

Eden Phillpotts

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Johann von Goethe

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it

Bertrand Russell

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

James M. Barrie