Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Orison Swett Marden

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

Margaret Atwood

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Evelyn Underhill

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Jesus Christ

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

Ville Valo

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Benjamin Franklin

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Books and marriage go ill together.

Moli

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

Tina Fey

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Charles Lamb

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe