Love is the mortar that holds the human structure together.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

C. S. Lewis

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. Faith works by love.

Jonathan Edwards

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Walter Bagehot

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

Andrew Bernstein

Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.

Mindy Starns Clark

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

Bob Moawad

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education

Thomas Jefferson

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement betweenProfessor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins,concerning punctuated evolution and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shallresolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication.

Christopher Hitchens

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Mario Andretti

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.note: Leitmotiv is German for 'leading motif'. It is a short musical phrase of specific sound effect that signals the appearance of a person, action, or situation.

Henri CartierBresson