Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Larry Niven

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Henry Brooks Adams

Big girls need big diamonds.

Elizabeth Taylor

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter Pater

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

Adam Carolla

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

Peter Guber

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

John Green

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

Mindy Kaling

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.

Rachel Carson

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

Frank Serafini