Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

And see the confluence of dreamsThat clashed together in our night,One river born of many streamsRoll in one blaze of blinding light!

George William Russell

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Johann von Goethe

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Orlando Bloom

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Prince

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

Leo Burnett

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever

Jane Austen

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

Ovid

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

E. M. Forster

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Thomas Carlyle

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Paul Harris