The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for theground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

James Russell Lowell

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus

Blaise Pascal

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce

Terry Pratchett

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

Christo

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

George Osborne

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

Justin Cronin

From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, and epicycle, orb in orb.

John Milton

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

George MacDonald

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Oscar Wilde

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Malcolm Muggeridge