Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

Karen Armstrong

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Alexander Herzen

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Abraham Lincoln

Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?

William Ross

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

Gustav Heinemann

Our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

Buck Owens

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Brigham Young

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

George Eliot

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

Lewis Mumford

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Laurence Olivier