Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Charles Kingsley

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Andrew Ross

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Source Unknown

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Ernest Hemingway

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

Stanislav Grof

Sometimes God dillies and dallies, and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.

Stephen King

Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

H. L. Mencken

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

Stephen King

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Edward F. Halifax

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself.

William Shakespeare