If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

Herman Melville, Billy Budd

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

James Cash Penney

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Bill Hybels

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

George Eliot

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Dalai Lama

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Orson Scott Card

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Sir Winston Churchill

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

Andrew Shue

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Francis H. Bradley