Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have.

Art Buchwald

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Minna Antrim

But perhaps the most mysterious thing he ever said about it was this. I was questioning him on the subject

C.S. Lewis

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

Billie Joe Armstrong

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.

Cassandra Clare

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Johann von Goethe

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.

William Shakespeare

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Voltaire

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)