I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

Terry Pratchett

twice I have lived forever in a smile

E.E. Cummings

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

...I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...

John Geddes

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Peace Pilgrim

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Vance Havner

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Blaise Pascal

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Jane Pauley

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

John Calvin

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

Don Sherwood

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch