Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. I Corinthians

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Stanislaw Lec

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

C.S. Lewis

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.

Rick Mercer

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Toi Derricotte

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Leonardo da Vinci

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.

Thomas Pynchon

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Charles Dickens

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Richard Dawkins

More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

William Shakespeare

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Oliver Goldsmith